Leaving the country for spouse's business after landing in Canada

[Marseluhu]

Hello,
Hope you can help me.
My residence permit got approved and we are going to Canada.
The thing is, my husband has a business in different country and we will need to travel a lot (for couple of months).
We've read that if your spouse has business outside you can accompany them and those days outside of Canada will be count as if you were there.
Is this true?
After we land in Canada what procedures we should do in this case?
How long time after we can leave Canada?
Thank you in advance!

 

[Ponga]

True, as long as your spouse in (obviously) a Canadian PR or citizen.
https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=1466&top=10

You travel with a spouse or common-law partner

Your spouse or common-law partner needs to be:

• a Canadian citizen, or
• a permanent resident working outside Canada, full-time for:
  • a Canadian business, or
  • the Canadian federal, provincial or territorial government

No need to worry about any sort of `procedure'. Just keep track of any days spent outside of Canada with, or without, your husband. You will need this information when applying for a new PR card (~5 years from now) and/or decide to apply for Canadian citizenship when eligible. It would be good if you can wait until you have your PR card, unless you are a U.S. citizen with a U.S. passport. If not, you would likely need a PRTD to return to Canada in the absence of having your PR card. A PR card or PRTD is a requirement of a commercial carrier for non-citizens of Canada to travel.

 

[PMM]

Hi

True, as long as your spouse in (obviously) a Canadian PR or citizen.
https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=1466&top=10

You travel with a spouse or common-law partner

Your spouse or common-law partner needs to be:

• a Canadian citizen, or
• a permanent resident working outside Canada, full-time for:
  • a Canadian business, or
  • the Canadian federal, provincial or territorial government

No need to worry about any sort of `procedure'. Just keep track of any days spent outside of Canada with, or without, your husband. You will need this information when applying for a new PR card (~5 years from now) and/or decide to apply for Canadian citizenship when eligible. It would be good if you can wait until you have your PR card, unless you are a U.S. citizen with a U.S. passport. If not, you would likely need a PRTD to return to Canada in the absence of having your PR card. A PR card or PRTD is a requirement of a commercial carrier for non-citizens of Canada to travel.

1. The spouse is not a Canadian citizen so accompanying doesn't apply.
2. The Businesses are overseas, so not a Canadian business, doesn't apply
3. Not with Government, so the time abroad will not be eligible for preserving PR.

 

[Ponga]

Without checking other posts from the OP, I would have no way of knowing that. Thanks for the *new* info!

 

[YVR123]

I though OP's spouse is Canadian citizen... I think OP needs to clarify this very important piece of information.

https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/changing-location-after-submitting-application.722088/post-9209501

 

[YVR123]

If your spouse is Canadian citizen and if you planned to travel frezently in and out of Canada, it's best to wait for you PR card to arrive before travel.
Otherwise, you need to apply for PRTD to fly back to Canada and some countries takes a long time for the application.
Another way is to travel by air to US and come back to Canada via the land border (with COPR) if you have US visa or have a visa exempted passport.

 

[canuck78]

It looks likey you and your husband are currently living abroad so you would have had to declare that you were returning to Canada to settle once you got your PR. You should have also been required to provide proof. If you land and return right back to your life abroad as if nothing changed it never looks good to IRCC. There would have been no need for the PR status. How long has your spouse been living abroad? How much time does he spend living abroad and how much time has he spent living in Canada? In one of your post you mentioned he still declares that his residential address is in Ontario. Does he live in Ontario? How many days per year? If he doesn’t actually live in Ontario but has declared that as his residential address that can become problematic.

 

[Ponga]

I though OP's spouse is Canadian citizen... I think OP needs to clarify this very important piece of information.

https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/changing-location-after-submitting-application.722088/post-9209501

Thanks for digging that out of the `archives'.

 

[canuck78]

Thanks for digging that out of the `archives'.

Even if the spouse is a Canadian citizen when applying for PR you are supposed to relocate to Canada. If they live abroad they would have been asked for proof that they would be resettling in Canada after getting PR. If the spouse also misled IRCC about their residency information that also could lead to problems. In general, a spouse getting PR is to relocate to Canada. If IRCC knew that the spouse was living abroad and was not living in Canada they wouldn’t have been granted PR without strong proof that they were returning to Canada.