Citizenship allowance to be out of canada

[paynil06]

I went through the forum and found my answer, but my uncle keeps assuring me the law has changed and if you have recieved your citizenship through naturalizaton - than you can loose your citizenship.

basically, this is my situation. i got married on december 2012, to an indian citizen. i stayed about one year in india and returned back to canada roughly oct 2013. than i came back to india on aprl 2014 and am planning to reutrn back on may 2015. my husband and i want to stay in india for roughly 4-5 years due to his personal/work commitments. now my questions are, -->do i loose my citizenship? i have got my citizenship when in march 1999 (naturalization, parnets migrated to canada from india). second of all, i have oci for india, which is overseas ctizenship of india.. which allows me to stay in india, without renewing my visa every six months to stay in india. (you can have oci, if you were born in india and have other country citizenship). my uncle says, according to some new law in canada, if you have oci and you are naturzlied citizenship of canada--- you can only stay certain amount of time out of canada. if that is the case,than how much time can it be? because i keep seraching the net for laws, and i only com across is that as long as you r a citizen, you can stay as long as you wsh out side the country and return without loosing your citizenship.

please help me if possibe. Thank you

 

[era1521]

I went through the forum and found my answer, but my uncle keeps assuring me the law has changed and if you have recieved your citizenship through naturalizaton - than you can loose your citizenship.

basically, this is my situation. i got married on december 2012, to an indian citizen. i stayed about one year in india and returned back to canada roughly oct 2013. than i came back to india on aprl 2014 and am planning to reutrn back on may 2015. my husband and i want to stay in india for roughly 4-5 years due to his personal/work commitments. now my questions are, -->do i loose my citizenship? i have got my citizenship when in march 1999 (naturalization, parnets migrated to canada from india). second of all, i have oci for india, which is overseas ctizenship of india.. which allows me to stay in india, without renewing my visa every six months to stay in india. (you can have oci, if you were born in india and have other country citizenship). my uncle says, according to some new law in canada, if you have oci and you are naturzlied citizenship of canada--- you can only stay certain amount of time out of canada. if that is the case,than how much time can it be? because i keep seraching the net for laws, and i only com across is that as long as you r a citizen, you can stay as long as you wsh out side the country and return without loosing your citizenship.

please help me if possibe. Thank you

Your citizenship cannot be revoked unless was acquired fraudulent.

In other words as citizen you can stay outside Canada as long as you want with no impact of your citizenship status.

 

[paynil06]

Your citizenship cannot be revoked unless was acquired fraudulent.

In other words as citizen you can stay outside Canada as long as you want with no impact of your citizenship status.

is there any diffeent rules for born citizen or acquring citizenship through naturaliztion??
Thanks for time

 

[era1521]

is there any diffeent rules for born citizen or acquring citizenship through naturaliztion??
Thanks for time

Yeah; its something different written in Passport for Place of Birth

 

[Juney]

What an Uncle...

 

[dpenabill]

Agree with the posts which essentially say NO problem.



Observations in the nature of an explanation:

This undoubtedly derives from misinformation about the so-called "intent to reside" clause in Bill C-24, in regard to which even the Canadian Bar Association initially contributed to disseminating a grossly exaggerated and simply unfounded interpretation, suggesting that the added subsection 5(1)(C.1)(i) in the Citizenship Act, as revised by Bill C-24 (this portion not yet in force) could lead to the revocation of citizenship if a naturalized citizen left Canada to live abroad. There is no substantive basis for this interpretation, and even if the government were to amend the Citizenship Act to include such a provision (that would revoke the citizenship of naturalized citizens who live abroad) that would be an unconstitutional infringement of a citizen's Charter Rights, and thus would be unenforceable.

But, again, that is not what subsection 5(1)(C.1)(i) in the Citizenship Act, as revised by Bill C-24 entails, not even for those who will be subject to the revised provisions (when they come into force later this year).

Beyond that, subsection 5(1)(C.1)(i) in the Citizenship Act, as revised by Bill C-24, has no bearing whatsoever on anyone already a citizen, no matter how the provision is interpreted.