Leaving nominated province temporarily for education

[spongebub25]

Hi I am a PR through MPNP (I've been in Manitoba for 6 years but just recently received my PR) and I decided to further my education in psychology to become a psychologist. There is only limited option in Manitoba for me to further my education, so I plan to study in Ontario temporarily and plan to return to Manitoba upon the completion of my education (I really do plan to settle in Manitoba permanently, I have friends and family here). My partner (who is a Canadian Citizen) also thinks of moving to another city/province to experience life other than in Manitoba, so it's like a perfect opportunities for the both of us.

Would that be allowed? I know there is a huge debate between mobility rights as a PR of Canada and PR through PNP...Would that also impact my citizenship application in the future

I will for sure stay for another year to work until school starts next year.

 

[shannon388]

>I will for sure stay for another year to work until school starts next year.
then you would have worked for 1+ years before leaving MB, so you'd have no issues at all

 

[Rob_TO]

Hi I am a PR through MPNP (I've been in Manitoba for 6 years but just recently received my PR) and I decided to further my education in psychology to become a psychologist. There is only limited option in Manitoba for me to further my education, so I plan to study in Ontario temporarily and plan to return to Manitoba upon the completion of my education (I really do plan to settle in Manitoba permanently, I have friends and family here). My partner (who is a Canadian Citizen) also thinks of moving to another city/province to experience life other than in Manitoba, so it's like a perfect opportunities for the both of us.

Would that be allowed? I know there is a huge debate between mobility rights as a PR of Canada and PR through PNP...Would that also impact my citizenship application in the future

I will for sure stay for another year to work until school starts next year.

There is no need to return to Manitoba at all if you don't want to (though it would be the noble thing to do as they nominated you). As long as you had genuine intention to reside in the province the nominated you up until landing as PR, then you are completely free under the fundamental rights of any PR to move to any province in Canada. And similarly there would be zero effect on a future citizenship app since citizenship simply requires you to live in Canada, not a specific province.

I don't know what there is to debate otherwise, since provinces can't force a PR to stay there. There is no legal contact signed you must stay there X years or PR is revoked. If they could somehow show fraud during the application phase that the applicant had no intent that may be an issue, but to date I've never seen even 1 case of this through any PNP app (so if there is 1 I'd be interested to see it).