Your address: confirm it and tell the right offices
First week · The essentials you need straight away
PR cards and official letters arrive by mail; a wrong address delays you.
- Where to go
- IRCC while you have an application in progress (such as a PR card on its way), then your bank, Service Canada and CRA.
- What to bring
- Your full address with postal code
- Unit number if any
- What to do, step by step
- Staying temporarily with family or in a hotel? Check that mail in your name will arrive.
- Put your name on the mailbox so letters reach you.
- Waiting for your PR card or another IRCC application? Give them any new address. Card received and nothing in progress? You do not need to tell IRCC.
- Every time you move, update your address with your bank, CRA and other offices.
Depending on your status:
- Permanent resident: New permanent resident? Your first PR card is free if you send IRCC your photo and address within 180 days of becoming a PR.
- Refugee or asylum claimant: Asylum claimant? Tell both IRCC and the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) about any new address.
- Work or study permit: Permit holder? Update your address in your IRCC account.
Note: report any change of address to the office handling your file right away.