PR requirement for Parents

[Asker302]

A general question

is the PR renewal requirement is still 2/5 years in Canada?

If one parent meets the 3/5 requirement for citizenship while the other parent is borderline 2/5 for PR renewal

Is it possible for one parent to apply for citizenship and once granted the second parent would not have to effectively meet the 2/5 as they are married?

 

[scylla]

A general question

is the PR renewal requirement is still 2/5 years in Canada?

If one parent meets the 3/5 requirement for citizenship while the other parent is borderline 2/5 for PR renewal

Is it possible for one parent to apply for citizenship and once granted the second parent would not have to effectively meet the 2/5 as they are married?

Yes - PR requirement is still 2 years out of 5.

No - that's not accurate. The second parent still has to meet the PR residency requirement of 2 years out of 5. However if they are outside of Canada and the parent who is a citizen lives outside of Canada along with them, they can count the days spent outside of Canada towards RO.

 

[Asker302]

Yes - PR requirement is still 2 years out of 5.

No - that's not accurate. The second parent still has to meet the PR residency requirement of 2 years out of 5. However if they are outside of Canada and the parent who is a citizen lives outside of Canada along with them, they can count the days spent outside of Canada towards RO.

Thanks

When can this count start. Only once one parent gets the citizenship or is it retroactively?

 

[vensak]

Of course it is not retroactive. So only from the moment of the citizenship, you can count the days spent with your spouse abroad towards meeting RO.
But attention, those days do not count towards your citizenship.