Is it true that already landed permanent residents don't require Travel Document

Sanvibha

Registered Users (C)
I was reading the “Applying for Travel Document (Permanent Residents abroad)” Guide. From the extract below, I concluded that we may not need Travel Document till 31st December 2003. Even if our Record Of Landing is not (IMM 1000), I believe, still it is ‘Record of Landing’

“Who should not apply for a Travel Document:

1) If you are the holder of a Permanent Resident Card
2) If you are the holder of a Record Of Landing (IMM 1000)
If you do not have a permanent resident card and you are the holder of an Immigrant Visa and Record of Landing (IMM 1000) issued by the Government of Canada, you should carry your original Record of Landing document with you whenever traveling abroad. The original Immigrant Visa and Record of Landing Document with which you first entered Canada, as a permanent resident is evidence that you were landed as an immigrant in Canada. You should always be prepared to present your original Record of Landing to representatives of a transportation company in order to demonstrate that you are entitled to reenter Canada as a permanent resident. Certified copies of the Record Of Landing are not acceptable evidence of your entitlement to re-enter Canada as a permanent resident.
As the holder of an original Record of Landing, you should not approach a visa office abroad to apply for a Travel Document for permanent residents in order to return to Canada. Should you apply for a Travel Document for permanent residents at a Canadian visa office abroad, your application and fees will be returned to you with a notice informing that until 31 December 2003 it is possible to travel back to Canada with your original Record of Landing and no other additional documentation is required. Holders of the Record of Landing Documents are expected to travel back to Canada with the original Record of Landing in their possession and they do not require any additional documentation to demonstrate that they are entitled to re-enter Canada as permanent residents.”

Any more opinions on this by the Gurus.
 
But this contents does not indicate whether you can use the landing document after the immigration officer stamped as " Not valid of Travel/re-entry". I think in that case you may need to apply for single entry permit as some of the people did.

Please clarify...........
 
My passport is not stamped with 'Not Valid for Travel/Reentry'. On the contrary, the immigration officer has put up a stamp on my passport which reads as below:

Immigration Canada

<Date of Landing>
Sud Ontario South
0906 Expiration


Below this stamp, he has hand written ‘Permanent Resident’

He has circled following entries from my Landing Visa:
No of Entries = One
Category
Document Number
Validity Expiration Date

Will this be suffice for me to go there without 'Travel Document'
 
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