How many times can I renew pr card

[shah1234]

Hello everyone! Plz guide us. How many times can I renew my pr card & can we live away from Canada but just come for 2 years in the rolling 5 years & then apply for renewing pr card & after we renew our pr card we come live permanently in Canada for 3 out of 4 rolling years so we get our citizenship. We just don't want to move now, so are thinking of maintaining pr status.

 

[Msafiri]

You can renew your PR Cards as many times as you wish to subject to meeting the Residence Obligation on the date of application. Note that CIC are now requiring Notice of Tax Assessments at renewal so those with income from outside Canada may have additional investigation and/or a residence questionnaire requiring submission of evidence of your physical presence in Canada. A better strategy is to sit tight in Canada and apply for Citizenship when you have 1095 physical days then maintain your PR during citizenship processing to oath date.

 

[steaky]

I would say alternatively is to have one spouse to get citizenship first, because the other spouse can maintain the residency obligation outside Canada if he/she is living with the Canadian spouse while outside Canada.

 

[shah1234]

Thank you. But we're planning of renewing our pr card & later move to canada. As long as we're there , giving taxes things should be good.

 

[steaky]

Thank you. But we're planning of renewing our pr card & later move to canada. As long as we're there , giving taxes things should be good.

In any case at the time of renewal, you and/or your spouse must meet the residency obligation in a 5 year period. Otherwise, your renewal application might be refused.

 

[pkakula]

I would say alternatively is to have one spouse to get citizenship first, because the other spouse can maintain the residency obligation outside Canada if he/she is living with the Canadian spouse while outside Canada.

Great idea !

 

[Msafiri]

I would say alternatively is to have one spouse to get citizenship first, because the other spouse can maintain the residency obligation outside Canada if he/she is living with the Canadian spouse while outside Canada.

Each person would have to maintain PR until the Citizenship applicant got to oath so if the citizenship processing is lengthy the non citizenship applicant is at even greater risk of PR loss unless they re-instate it when the spouse gets Citizenship and lives with them for 2 years....the math IMHO is too risky. This also assumes the relationship continues.

 

[shah1234]

This means that one must apply for citizenship before pr card expires because the process might take long & the pr card will expire? Can one apply for pr renewal on the last day of pr expiry?

 

[steaky]

Can one apply for pr renewal on the last day of pr expiry?

As long as the applicant meet its PR residency obligation, s/he can renew the PR card even the card itself had expired.