A soon-to-land PR (nominated by Ontario, landing in Ontario) worried about the address collected for the PR card: what if the officer refuses a friend's address, and is it a problem that the friend lives in Alberta?
- Don't overthink the address — it exists only to mail your card. The thread's core reassurance: the address taken at landing is a mailing address, not a residence declaration. Officers know new arrivals don't have a permanent home yet and are considerate about it.
- A friend's address will be accepted, members confirmed — including one in a different province from where you land. (Worth knowing separately: provincial nominees are expected to settle in their nominating province; using an out-of-province mailing address for the card is a logistics matter, but actually residing elsewhere shortly after a PNP landing is a different, riskier question the thread didn't get into.)
- If the card process somehow isn't initiated at landing, it can be sorted afterwards — you can update your mailing address with IRCC online and follow up on the card; the poster's fear of a dead end at the airport wasn't borne out by members' experience.
Overall tone of the thread: this is one of the most over-worried steps of landing — have any reliable Canadian mailing address ready and move on.