Outside canada for 2.5 years. What will I be questioned at the border? What documents to show?

[empower]

No - only that you meet the RO test.

To repeat this calculation in the most simple form: if you have been OUTSIDE Canada LESS THAN 1095 days (three years) in the last FIVE YEARS (discarding any days before you became a PR), you are in compliance.*

Because less than three years will have passed since the day you became a PR, it is mathematically impossible for you to be out of compliance with the RO.

*This is my (much easier to understand) restatement of the rules for RO as written in legislation, where they require you to count the number of days remaining until the end of that first five year period, and 'add them back' to your # of days actually in Canada. Effectively they give you credit for days remaining, and that's you 'demonstrate' you will be able to meet the obligation - arithmetic. Eg "I have been in Canada one day but there are 850 days remaining in that first five year period."

The rest of my simplification is just arithmetic, where counting days outside Canada is a bit easier.
2 years in Canada in five years is equivalent to 5 * 365 - 2*365 = 1095 days outside Canada. Instead of 'adding back' days remaining, for RO purposes days before becoming a PR are irrelevant, so just don't count those days (or more simply, I effectively treat all days before becoming a PR as outside Canada, and then discard them - you can actually count only days outside after becoming a PR).

Thank you so much. By 'demonstrate', I can tell I have 2.5 yrs remaining so I will be able to meet RO. I was out for personal commitments and I am here now to settle permanently in Canada. Is this what I should say when they question me? And if they ask if I have funds to live in Canada without depending on others then I should say I have enough funds but I don't need to show any proof?

 

[empower]

You're overthinking. Repeat: you do not NEED to show this. But they may ask any questions they like to evaluate your case and your credibility (more in the sense of whether you seem to be telling the truth, not your 'credibility' as a PR) - just tell the truth.

What questions could they ask me when 'they will evaluate my case and credibility' so I can prepare an answer. I will be telling the truth as there's nothing to hide.

 

[armoured]

What questions could they ask me when 'they will evaluate my case and credibility' so I can prepare an answer. I will be telling the truth as there's nothing to hide.

You're overthinking. They could ask literally anything at all. What's your mother's maiden name?

Just do as you do when people ask questions. You think about it, respond with the answer, and if you don't know, you say "I don't know."

 

[armoured]

Thank you so much. By 'demonstrate', I can tell I have 2.5 yrs remaining so I will be able to meet RO. I was out for personal commitments and I am here now to settle permanently in Canada. Is this what I should say when they question me? And if they ask if I have funds to live in Canada without depending on others then I should say I have enough funds but I don't need to show any proof?

Demonstrate: if they ask you (they probably won't), you tell them there are more than two years remaining to get the 730 days, that's it.

The rest: simply tell the truth. They will not ask for proof of funds.

Seriously: there's a good chance you won't get asked any questions at all, or entirely routine boring questions (when were you last in Canada? About two years ago).

 

[empower]

Demonstrate: if they ask you (they probably won't), you tell them there are more than two years remaining to get the 730 days, that's it.

The rest: simply tell the truth. They will not ask for proof of funds.

Seriously: there's a good chance you won't get asked any questions at all, or entirely routine boring questions (when were you last in Canada? About two years ago).

Thanks so much for your responses.