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Hoping_canadian: your information is wrong and might significantly mislead people on this forum. The new immigration laws will apply for everyone: old and new applicants. It does not matter when you became a PR, what matters is when you apply for citizenship. If you apply for citizenship before...

I heard you could renew your PRC without having met your residency obligations if you can prove that medical reasons prevented you from completing 1095 days. Is it not the same case for a citizenship application?

I see. But most of my absent days are due to medical reasons. So what if I can justify 7 months of absence due to medical reasons? How would that help? would those 7 months be counted as presence days instead of absent ones?

hello senior members so the basic residency requirement is: must not have more than 365 absent days outside canada in the last 4 years. have you come across this baffling situation before: When I first landed 4 years ago in 2009, I continuously stayed inside canada for 2 and a half years (900...

Thanks Leon. Final question: if I renew my PRC once I've met the RO, how long should I expect the new card to be valid for? another 5 years?

Hi Leon The accident resulted in me having to stay much longer than I had planned in that country to recover from surgery etc. But I had already exceeded 1095 days outside Canada before I took the trip that resulted in the accident. So I guess the accident will not justify why I wont be meeting...

Thanks Msafiri, that was really helpful. Do you think I have good grounds to apply urgently for my PRC renewal though? considering that my H&C grounds can only justify why I need to travel now, but they do not justify why I will not have met my residency obligation by the time my PRC expires...

thanks Scylla and Leon. I have another question for you.. If my application for a Travel Document gets denied, how badly does that affect my chances of renewing my PR when I apply with 730 days in hand? I remember reading a question in one of the forms about whether "an officer has decided that...

Hello senior members.. • My PRC will expire on April 1st 2013. • I will only be able to meet the residency obligations of 730 days by June 1st 2013 (assuming I remain in Canada continuously until then) • I don't have a good excuse for not meeting the residency obligations before my PRC expires...