Residency obligation for Citizenship working in Canadian Business Outside Canada

[minononi]

Dear All,

I am PR in Canada and my company in Canada (Well reputable engineering consultancy firm in Canada) will assign me to work outside Canada for 2 years. I want to know if this period outside Canada will count towards the Residency obligation period required to apply for Citizenship or no? I know that it will count towards maintaining PR status but not sure about citizenship application?

 

[h3a3j6]

Dear All,

I am PR in Canada and my company in Canada (Well reputable engineering consultancy firm in Canada) will assign me to work outside Canada for 2 years. I want to know if this period outside Canada will count towards the Residency obligation period required to apply for Citizenship or no? I know that it will count towards maintaining PR status but not sure about citizenship application?

No, here's the information from CIC: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=370&top=5

 

[arti147]

Can I get some more details about working outside Canada and keeping PR status? Thank you!

 

[dpenabill]

Can I get some more details about working outside Canada and keeping PR status? Thank you!

There are many topics here which address when credit toward the PR Residency Obligation may be available for PRs working abroad for a Canadian business; these are in the group of topics for "Permanent Residency Obligations."

Example: see the topic titled "Working Abroad RO credit, including "business trips;" an update"
https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-i...it-including-business-trips-an-update.607559/

The primary issue focused on there is a narrow tangent, the so-called "business trip," which is somewhat distinct from most cases in which the availability of this credit is at issue.

Notwithstanding that, there is a lot of discussion in that topic about qualifying for this credit. More significantly there are many references and citations to informative sources. The case citations appear to link but many of the links do not work anymore . . . still, the urls can be copied and pasted to get to those cases, where there is extensive discussion and illustration of how the rules are officially applied in actual cases.

KEY to understanding the working-abroad-for-Canadian-business RO credit is that it tends to be narrowly interpreted and strictly applied, and thus tends to be a lot, lot more tricky than many PRs anticipate. I have sometimes said that anyone who actually needs the credit probably does NOT qualify for it. This is a bit of an exaggeration but it is meant to emphasize just how narrowly the statute is interpreted and how strictly that narrow interpretation is applied.