I am a Canadian citizen.....i am currently in india and I am taking a break for 6 months and will be back to canada early next year once it's a little safe to travel, my wife is a Canadian PR and she I am a Canadian citizen.....i am currently in india and I am taking a break for 6 months and will be back to canada early next year once it's a little safe to travel, my wife is a Canadian PR and she needs to finish her residency days for renewal of her PR, I have a question will her time spend with me outside canada count towards her days in canada for residency
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I'd suggest you post in the residency obligations forum:
https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-i...rd/forums/permanent-residency-obligations.11/
The question of whether her time spent with you while abroad will count towards her residency obligations is a bit (or even a lot) more complicated. There is a specific issue with whether she 'accompanied' you and you may need to provide more detail. Also possibly matters how much she has been outside of Canada and how much with you. So unfortunately easy answer may not be entirely accurate.
Thank you for your reply, she has stayed in canada for a year with me but she had to go all the time to india to look after her old sick mom as she was the only daughter and now I am back in india as I have decided to stay back for 6 months in india and we are staying together and are married for 8 years
Again, you really should post in the residency obligations forum I linked to above.
As I understand, the 'accompanying Canadian citizen' formula was designed for e.g. a Canadian citizen posted to some third country for work. There are various additional restrictions as to how they look at it (or at least can look at it - the relative strictness of enforcement has apparently changed over the years ie. become somewhat more strict). One point for example: whether they even consider 'who accompanied whom.'
In your case, I would suggest your wife should NOT count on the days with you abroad being included in the calculation. Because it looks like she has basically been spending most or a lot of time in her home country regardless of whether you are there or not. So they might consider that she is residing there and you just have decided to visit her - not her accompanying you.
But I'm not an expert on this, just saying it may not be as easy as counting all days you are together abroad.
There are of course lots of other factors and those should be looked at as well, including how short she is of her residency obligation and whether she intends to actually permanently reside in Canada in the near future, etc.
Should also note here since you titled this pr card - if she needs to renew her card soon, consider it might be difficult or impossible to do from outside Canada, take quite some time, and not be possible until she meets the residency obligation.
Practically that could mean longish periods where she would not be able to travel.
Plan ahead.
Practically that could mean longish periods where she would not be able to travel.
Plan ahead.
Hmm, I swear I saw that they got rid of questioning intentions of who stayed with who and would just count the days no matter the circumstances. You would be correct if this is not the case.
I do not know current status but have heard the other side of this. But again, it may be due to very different circumstances between files and applications. And there are those with more knowledge of the residency obligation/RO side in that forum.
But I suspect there is a much higher chance of review and those days being disallowed in a case where the PR has been abroad for quite a bit of time in home country and the citizen joins later; compared to a case, for example, where a couple moves together and at the same time to a third country.
Again, not claiming perfect knowledge, but that this may be more complex and possibly other approaches better.
That is the main purpose. If the wife has been in India and he is joining her after the fact the question of who accompanied whom may be an issue. It is always hard to tell when this gets applied. You do need to be in Canada to apply for a new PR card.