Thanks
@IndianBos
For PR renewal if you have your residency fulfilled i.e. 808 days would you still not require to show the proof of your residency in form of pay stubs , or bank statements. I know its a dumb question and its there marked in cic website but on this forum i had seen few folks mentioning about sending their bank statements or pay stubs to prove their residency obligation.
Please let me know if i would need to prove my residency by showing all these documents. Once again am not cutting close to the residency obligations. I have like 808 days in the past 5 years.
I concur in the excellent responses by
@IndianBos
And, in particular, I concur that there is no need to supplement the PR card application with evidence of your presence in Canada, at least not beyond the information requested and documents to be included with the application per the instructions.
If additional evidence or information or particular documents are necessary, IRCC will request those. There is near zero indication that pre-emptively including additional evidence with the application helps avoid non-routine processing or subsequent requests.
If you are now clearly settled and living permanently in Canada, and there is no reason to doubt your accounting of 808 days IN Canada within the preceding five years, it is NOT likely IRCC will request further evidence of your presence in Canada.
But some clarification beyond that may be warranted. If you have, as you indicate, been outside Canada MORE than you have been in Canada, that is
cutting-it-close. After all, if there is any concern or doubt about where you were during a period of time, the natural, reasonable inference is that you were where you were otherwise most of the time . . . meaning, unless the evidence affirmatively shows you were actually present in Canada for any particular time period, the likelihood is you were NOT in Canada . . .
since you were NOT in Canada most of the time (more than a 1000 days in the preceding five years it appears).
What that means, how that might affect processing the PR card application, varies, and depending on the particular individual's situation, including your overall history, your more recent circumstances and extent of settlement in Canada, among other factors.
I do NOT mean to alarm you. There is NO indication you have any reason to worry. And, for example, if you were IN Canada 808 days within the previous five years as of the date you make the PR card application, there really should NOT be ANY PROBLEM.
But again, that is
cutting-it-close, close enough that it will be prudent for you to keep good records and have a digital and paper trail documenting your days in Canada. Odds are you will NOT be asked for this evidence ("proof" many call it), but if for some reason IRCC has concerns and asks for documents proving your presence, THEN you should approach that seriously and be prepared to provide good evidence. If that happens, by the way, bank statements and pay stubs are significantly less valuable than direct and objective evidence of presence in Canada and of maintaining a residence in Canada. Again, I am not suggesting, not at all, you will be asked to more substantively prove your presence, but given the extent to which you are
cutting-it-close, it is a good idea to be prepared . . . just in case.
