Worldwide income after becoming Permanent Resident

[the_rek]

Hi

My story is bit complex. Please bear with me.

I came to Canada as a PR in 2018. Stayed here for 5 months and then went back to home country. I worked there in 2019, and 2020. I came back to Canada in 2021.

My CPA file 2019 and 2020 income tax in Canada as non resident and world wide income as 0. As a result, I got some tax credits ~ $600.

In 2021, I sponsored my wife and mentioned in the employment history that I worked in my home country for 2 years. But again, the world wide income was 0 for the those 2 years.

Now, I am applying for Canadian citizenship. They are asking for employment and I rightfully mentioned what I did and same was mentioned in my earlier Spousal PR application.


In Citizenship application, we give authorization to CRA to share data with IRCC.

Does this mean there could be some trouble with employment history out of Canada and yet the Worldwide income being 0?

 

[Seym]

IRCC only checks that you filed income for a certain number of years, not the actual content of the tax filing.
If there's a mistake in a given year, you can always correct it with CRA yourself, you can still do so for 2019 and 2020.

 

[armoured]

I came to Canada as a PR in 2018. Stayed here for 5 months and then went back to home country. I worked there in 2019, and 2020. I came back to Canada in 2021.

My CPA file 2019 and 2020 income tax in Canada as non resident and world wide income as 0. As a result, I got some tax credits ~ $600.

I agree with the above, it's not an issue for the citizenship.

That said: may want to go back and check. It does not make sense to me that you got a tax credit on the basis of being a non-resident. Small beans at $600 I admit, but still.