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Moving to another province is a huge red flag for PNP. What about moving to another country?

thirdcup

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Jan 18, 2024
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Most cases I've seen here are when your intend to live in that province is questioned when you move to another province, but still live in Canada.

What if you move to another country during application? Will that raise concerns or result in PFLs/refusals? Are there cases related to that?

Background: we've got our nomination under the OINP masters stream, and have submitted to IRCC. However, we need to live in the US for 1-2 year for a job relocation. We still do plan to return to Canada.
 

Alalac

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Oct 2, 2021
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Most cases I've seen here are when your intend to live in that province is questioned when you move to another province, but still live in Canada.

What if you move to another country during application? Will that raise concerns or result in PFLs/refusals? Are there cases related to that?

Background: we've got our nomination under the OINP masters stream, and have submitted to IRCC. However, we need to live in the US for 1-2 year for a job relocation. We still do plan to return to Canada.
You'll have to inform the province and IRCC about your new status, as you wont be meeting one of the pnp requirements that is living and establishing in the province. Probably your application will be canceled
 

canuck78

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Jun 18, 2017
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Most cases I've seen here are when your intend to live in that province is questioned when you move to another province, but still live in Canada.

What if you move to another country during application? Will that raise concerns or result in PFLs/refusals? Are there cases related to that?

Background: we've got our nomination under the OINP masters stream, and have submitted to IRCC. However, we need to live in the US for 1-2 year for a job relocation. We still do plan to return to Canada.
The basis of PNP program is to meet current labour needs. If you don’t plan on resetting in Ontario in the near future and plan on leaving Ontario then application becomes pretty pointless for the province.
 

thirdcup

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Jan 18, 2024
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You'll have to inform the province and IRCC about your new status, as you wont be meeting one of the pnp requirements that is living and establishing in the province. Probably your application will be canceled
There's one thing I can't figure out: is living and establishing in Canada before you got the PR a mandate for PNP? If so, what about for those out-of-country PNP applicants without work permits? What about those with expiring status or visas?
 

thirdcup

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Jan 18, 2024
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The basis of PNP program is to meet current labour needs. If you don’t plan on resetting in Ontario in the near future and plan on leaving Ontario then application becomes pretty pointless for the province.
We definitely do plan to settle in Ontario in the near future. We just wanted to know if the current move we're planning will be flagged by IRCC as something critical.

From a provincial level, I don't think Ontario cares. When we apply for OINP there's this one requirement that's very explicit and clear: you can either be living in Ontario or be living outside of Canada, you just can't be living in other provinces. But will IRCC care? Will they invalidate the provincial nomination that we've already got?

I'd be curious to know if there are any prior cases and how they turned out.