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If you want to ensure you retain your status in Canada you should not go to Hong Kong until you are a Canadian citizen.
Do not return until you are a Canadian citizen. Otherwise you may put your PR status at risk of being revoked.
If you really want to know if you can return to Canada after the visit, you can probably contact the Hong Kong Immigration Dept.
Not sure how HK immigration has anything to do with this case. They applied for asylum.
Would add you should not be using your HK/Chinese passport to travel anywhere or you also risk losing status in Canada. As a protected person you need to travel using an RTD. Asylum allows people to gain status in a country for their own protection while many would not have qualified otherwise but it does come with some significant consequences which is why it should always be the last option.
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If you wanna lose your status, go ahead and travel back to your home country. You can only can go after you obtain your canadian cizitenship
Nope, doesnt matter you are minor or not. If you travel back before you obtaining your cizitenship, you will lose your PR , simple. Dont take the risk. Period
She got lucky so far but at any point the government can accuse her reavailment and she could lose her status in Canada. She also reapplied for a new home country passport by claiming it was lost and used it twice consciously took steps to apply for another one so reavailment case would be even stronger. Many of these reavailment cases only start when someone applies for citizenship. You can request to get your passport back to use for records not for use as a travel document. This is an incredibly risky and unless a life or death situation a pretty stupid move especially as sentiment against asylum seekers and immigration has soured, we have seen increased reavailment cases that can go back decades and we are almost certain to have a new conservative government who tends to be less lenient and a push to tighten our immigration system. Is a trip worth the stress of potentially losing your status in Canada in the future, the potential legal expenses and limbo involved for years, difficulty ever obtaining citizenship, etc.
Not guaranteed you will lose PR but it puts you at risk of losing PR. Unless it is really a life/death situation then never advisable.
Do not travel back to Hong Kong or use your passport. Wait till you are a citizen and depending on what happened with your mom, CCP may have access to you and use it against your mother.
I won't travel back even after citizenship if I were you. But it's up to you to take the risk.
For now, do not travel back since you are only a PR and you got your PR via claiming asylum. Your friend was lucky (officiers in IRCC were not doing their job) on getting her citizenship.
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as others have said, given you obtained PR through asylum any renewal of your country of origin's passport, using the passport for travel or traveling to your country of origin will put you at risk of losing your status in Canada. this does not mean everyone who does any of these will be persecuted or caught, it just means you are taking a significant risk if you do. these are the facts, look up reavailment/cessation, and this can be triggered at any time.
my personal opinion is that given you are a minor/under your mothers refugee application, your actions related to this subject could potentially impact your mothers status in canada. I would advise you to avoid the risk at all costs and only consider going back to HK after you are a citizen of canada and only travel using a Refugee Travel Document and not your country of origin's passport.
good luck!
It's not forever. HK do allow duel citizenship but China doesn't.
After you become Canadian citizen, you can renew and use your HK passport.
And believe me, Canada can find out if you use your other passports if you travel with them/it as a PR.
It will likely become more strict in the near future since the Conservatives are expected to form the next majority government.
