Timeline to keep my PR Status intact

[0111 NOC]

Hello,

Myself, spouse and two children under age of 15 are all Canadian Permanent Residence.

My status is as follows:

PR date: June 2, 2016
First Entry to Canada: June 2, 2016
Exit from Canada: June 30, 2016
Expected re-entry to Canada: June 23, 2019
Outside Canada Stay: June 30, 2016 to June 23, 2019
PR expiry date: July 18, 2021

As per our calculation to keep our PR status intact, we need to stay 730 days (2 years) not necessarily consecutively in a five year period from the date of our first landing/PR date.

From the information provided above we need advise if we are correct in our calculations for keeping our PR status intact in future at the time of renewal of our PR card. Kindly advise.

 

[scylla]

Hello,

Myself, spouse and two children under age of 15 are all Canadian Permanent Residence.

My status is as follows:

PR date: June 2, 2016
First Entry to Canada: June 2, 2016
Exit from Canada: June 30, 2016
Expected re-entry to Canada: June 23, 2019
Outside Canada Stay: June 30, 2016 to June 23, 2019
PR expiry date: July 18, 2021

As per our calculation to keep our PR status intact, we need to stay 730 days (2 years) not necessarily consecutively in a five year period from the date of our first landing/PR date.

From the information provided above we need advise if we are correct in our calculations for keeping our PR status intact in future at the time of renewal of our PR card. Kindly advise.

Yes - this will allow you to keep your PR status - but it's a bad plan. If you do this, this means you'll effectively have to stay in Canada for two straight years without leaving once you return in June. So no vacations outside of Canada, no trips to see family members outside of Canada, no emergency visits outside of Canada for two years. It would be best to return several months sooner to avoid putting yourself in this situation.

 

[0111 NOC]

Thank you Scylla for your feedback. This is very helpful!

 

[canuck78]

Thank you Scylla for your feedback. This is very helpful!

Also no room for business trips. Not sure of your current profession but that can also cause problems. We see tons of cases like this when families immigrate very close to the 3 year mark and then there is family emergency. Families attempt to say this was an H&C situation and they should be let back into Canada. Due to the 3 years where they chose to stay out of Canada they are denied.

 

[Dalboy1980]

Also no room for business trips. Not sure of your current profession but that can also cause problems. We see tons of cases like this when families immigrate very close to the 3 year mark and then there is family emergency. Families attempt to say this was an H&C situation and they should be let back into Canada. Due to the 3 years where they chose to stay out of Canada they are denied.

I agree with Canuck78, having been in the position where you're not allowed to leave even for a single day without first completing the 2 years+ and then renewing, it is extremely tough and hard.
Both from a professional point of view but more so where family is still overseas, my situation meant not being able to go to conferences in the USA and worse still I couldn't return to support my mother who was ill back home in the UK.
I was able to successfully stick it out but it's certainly not an easy thing to do.