Applying for Canadian Citizenship without the Principal applicant

[kcbombay]

If a Principal Applicant who is a Permanent Resident fails to meet the Residency obligation, but his spouse and children who live in Canada met the residency obligation, can they apply for citizenship without the principal applicant?

Is there anything in the Canadian citizenship law that makes it obligatory that Principal applicant must meet the residency obligation, before the spouse and kids can qualify and apply for Canadian citizenship?

 

[Buletruck]

PR status and the opportunity to apply for citizenship is assessed on the individual(s) merit/compliance. The PA has nothing to do with it. Once you land and become a PR, the PA is no longer relevant to RO and citizenship