Under what circumstances can a person nominated by a province (Quebec in my case) move to another province.

[CTB]

Hello,

I recently got my CSQ and I'm in the process of applying for PR, I have a house in Montreal, I work in Montreal and I have a partner in Montreal, I cant see a situation where I would leave Montreal. My question however is once you have PR I understand you made an agreement with the province to reside there, however life happens and sometimes you are presented with opportunities and PR holders do have a right under the charter of rights and freedoms to move around freely.

So, under what circumstances can a person nominated by a province move residence?

I've heard some say if you've actually made efforts to place roots (in my case I own a couple properties) and you've lived there for a couple years after your PR was approved, you can move if you have offers to relocate as its clear you've not indented to deceive.

Thoughts?

 

[armoured]

Hello,

I recently got my CSQ and I'm in the process of applying for PR, I have a house in Montreal, I work in Montreal and I have a partner in Montreal, I cant see a situation where I would leave Montreal. My question however is once you have PR I understand you made an agreement with the province to reside there, however life happens and sometimes you are presented with opportunities and PR holders do have a right under the charter of rights and freedoms to move around freely.

So, under what circumstances can a person nominated by a province move residence?

I've heard some say if you've actually made efforts to place roots (in my case I own a couple properties) and you've lived there for a couple years after your PR was approved, you can move if you have offers to relocate as its clear you've not indented to deceive.

Thoughts?

While I doubt there is a hard and fast set of criteria, I think a simple rule of thumb would be that anyone residing and working in their province of selection for a full year after receiving PR status (that is, 12 months from date of) would have absolutely nothing to worry about. I'm not saying, of course, that less than this is necessarily an issue, just that one year clearly meets intent.

Caveat, one should look at the specifics of the provincial program to confirm there were no special requirements - not aware of / never heard of any that would beyond that though.

 

[CTB]

While I doubt there is a hard and fast set of criteria, I think a simple rule of thumb would be that anyone residing and working in their province of selection for a full year after receiving PR status (that is, 12 months from date of) would have absolutely nothing to worry about. I'm not saying, of course, that less than this is necessarily an issue, just that one year clearly meets intent.

Caveat, one should look at the specifics of the provincial program to confirm there were no special requirements - not aware of / never heard of any that would beyond that though.

From what I've been able to work out their is no specific timeframe enshrined in law, and situations where provinces have taken action against people to relocated seems to revolve around them believing the applicant never intended to make the province they received PNP from their primary residence.

So its mainly targeted at people who for example relocate as soon as they get their PR confirmation, or people who for example bought property in one province while applying for PR in another.. situations like this would indicate the person never intended to make the PNP province their home.

 

[armoured]

From what I've been able to work out their is no specific timeframe enshrined in law, and situations where provinces have taken action against people to relocated seems to revolve around them believing the applicant never intended to make the province they received PNP from their primary residence.

So its mainly targeted at people who for example relocate as soon as they get their PR confirmation, or people who for example bought property in one province while applying for PR in another.. situations like this would indicate the person never intended to make the PNP province their home.

I agree with your summary overall. I don't believe they 'pursue' (investigate / attempt to take measures against the PR) except in quite clear-cut cases. That said: again, perhaps difficult to draw a line where they might consider 'clear-cut' case against the PR.

But I was responding primarily to this part of your first post: "I've heard some say if you've actually made efforts to place roots (in my case I own a couple properties) and you've lived there for a couple years after your PR was approved, you can move if you have offers to relocate as its clear you've not indented to deceive."

I believe it is fairly clear that a PR who has lived more than a year after getting PR status should not worry at all, as the criteria of residing / intending to reside has clearly been met (or more than met, if you prefer), and moves to other provinces for whatever reason (personal, professional, simple desire, whatever) would not be questioned.

Put differently: would less than a year be an issue? I don't know. Perhaps not. But more than a year, almost certainly not.