Need help Plz: Short of 730 days requirements

[dk211]

Hi there!

I got PR with my wife and daughter in 2008. We were just a week in Canada and due to my mother's illness we returned our home country. My mother needed dialysis and we had to take care of her. Now we now want to back to Canada immediately after her death on last month. Our PR card will expire on Sept 2013. We are eager to return Canada but worried about the residency requirements and deportation. Please advise us.

Thanks
dk211

 

[Leon]

Get your mothers doctors to give you her medical reports and sign some letters that she was ill and needed you to take care of her. Keep these documents. When you enter Canada, if they ask how long you were gone, admit that you do not meet the residency requirements but it is because you were taking care of your sick mother and you have the documents to prove it. They should not do anything about that.

When your PR card expires, if you want to avoid the hassle of immigration picking through your documents and trying to figure out how much care your mother actually needed, just continue to stay in Canada with your expired card until you have 730 days over the past 5 year period. At that point, you can apply to renew normally because you meet the requirements again. You would however not be able to travel from the time your PR card expired until you can renew.

Another option, apply to renew when your card expires, admit on the application that you do not meet the requirements but make a plea to keep your PR anyway for humane and compassionate reasons as you were taking care of your sick mother. Include the documents, translated by a certified translator.