How do you maintain Canadian PR status? Residency obligation (1) A permanent resident must comply with a residency obligation with respect to every five-year period. (2) The following provisions govern the residency obligation under subsection (1): (a) a permanent resident complies with the residency obligation with respect to a five-year period if, on each of a total of…

When does a Permanent Resident lose status? If we read the proper section of the Act, it is quite clear: Permanent resident (1) A person loses permanent resident status (a) when they become a Canadian citizen; [This is self, explanatory, when one become a Canadian Citizen, he ceases to be a Permanent Resident] (b) on a final determination…

Are you still a Canadian Permanent Resident? Why are we looking at this question? With the present COVID pandemic, we are getting many inquiries from people who had lived in Canada as Permanent Residents (PR) in the past but have since moved overseas. In light of the fact that Canada has done relatively well with…

A new public policy announcement today, July 14, 2020, allow temporary residents who are out of status after January 30, 2020 to restore their status beyond the regular timeframe of 90 days, until December 31, 2020.  Details of this policy may be found in the link and posted here for reference.This is certainly good news…