Accompanying a Canadian Citizen while traveling abroad

[CPOM]

Hello,

We just got a baby born in Canada. Us, his parents, have a permanent resident status. We are planning to travel to our country of origin during a couple of months.

I just wanted to ask if the time away from Canada accompanying a Canadian Citizen (a baby) will be taking under consideration when calculating the time to apply for citizenship?

Thanks in advance for your answers

 

[CS_Vlad]

From CIC point of view when a person accompanies citizen spouse or parent, she should not worry about expiration of PR status. Only physical presence counts for citizenship residency calculation. So the answer is double "no". Accompanying a child does not count for anything.

 

[Leon]

Agreed. Accompanying can never give you days for citizenship unless you are accompanying a Canadian citizen spouse who works in the public service, for a province or for the armed forces.

Accompanying can give you days for PR maintenance if you are a PR spouse or child, accompanying a Canadian citizen spouse/parent or you are accompanying a PR spouse/parent whose Canadian employer has transferred them to an overseas position.

 

[nwtspam]

Hello,

We just got a baby born in Canada. Us, his parents, have a permanent resident status. We are planning to travel to our country of origin during a couple of months.

I just wanted to ask if the time away from Canada accompanying a Canadian Citizen (a baby) will be taking under consideration when calculating the time to apply for citizenship?

Thanks in advance for your answers

Do not mix up between PR and Citizenship applications.

 

[CS_Vlad]

Accompanying a citizen child matters for neither.

Do not mix up between PR and Citizenship applications.

 

[ajslp]

Fellow forum members have already answered your question. I just wanted to add the logical reasoning. Babies are dependent on parents. But parents are not dependent on babies.

As far as citizenship is concerned, you need to be physically present in Canada for 1095 days in preceding 4 years. There is no short cut unless you work for armed forces or government jobs. You have to be very careful about the Canadian government jobs abroad. Those jobs should be available to you when you move back to Canada. So basically 1095 days is a hard requirement.