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hibba27

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Jan 16, 2013
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Hellow, i have a question,


I am a Canadian Citizen. My husband became Permanent Resident of Canada in July, 2009 and his PR card will be expiring in July 2014.


My husband had to travel outside of Canada to wrap up some issues after two months of becoming Permanent Resident. I joined him later on and lived with him for almost two years uninterruptedly. Now we are moving back to Canada. My husband’s absence from Canada exceeds 1095 days and he needs to use the “OPTION 1. Accompanying a Canadian citizen (spouse) outside Canada” to meet the residency requirements.


I just need to know that will my joining him later on and period of me living with him satisfy his residency obligations. Would that count towards the rule “Accompanying a Canadian citizen spouse outside Canada” while traveling? Because I joined him there later on and lived with him for almost two years .

thanks in advance
 
Your time together counts.

CIC in a court case argued in a situation similar to yours that the PR had to accompany the Canadian citizen not the other way round but the Federal Court wasn't buying this as they figured accompany mean't being together and it did not matter who joined whom.
 
Welcome...hopefully you have a record of your time together outside Canada. Check out a thread by the poster with handle chinapeach in this PR Obligations section of the forum...her spouse had issues with renewing PR and they could not document their time outside Canada.