21685 said:
To maintain PR status one has to stay 730 days i.e., 2 years in 5 years time. If a PR stay 6 months in Canada and 6 months outside Canada
in every year will there be any problem while entering Canada by the immigration department and what reasons will be a good excuse to a person doing 6 months in and 6 months out. Please throw some light on this Seniors.
Half-time in Canada, half-time outside Canada, meets the PR Residency Obligation.
Many have said this. It is obvious. No advanced degrees in higher math necessary to figure this out.
Half-time in Canada, half-time outside Canada, meets the PR RO by a reasonable margin and thus it is not really
cutting-it-close, even if one might observe that it is
cutting-it-a-bit-close to
cutting-it-close. (There is no magic number of days that is not
cutting-it-close, since, after all, the only formal requirement is the 730 days in Canada minimum, the 2/5 rule, and otherwise it is about appearances, impressions, credibility, and what other circumstances there might be raising questions.)
So any problems are more likely to arise, if any do, for other reasons. Way, way too many other aspects in the lives of immigrants, without even getting into those who do not fully settle permanently in Canada and thus lead a sort of
border-straddling or
border-hopping lifestyle, to try mapping potential pitfalls or
things-which-might-go-bump-in-the-night.
But make no mistake,
stuff happens.
Asking questions which are more suited for
fortune tellers is common in this forum. While many efforts to offer answers state more or less accurate generalizations, relative to actual individuals these tend to be in the vein of prophesy or guess, and given the vagaries of life in some circumstances are more misleading than helpful.
In any event, I cannot guess what problems you may encounter in pursuing such a plan. I can say that many times life tends to slip off the intended path. And other times an unexpected obstacle arises even if one stays on the intended path. Again,
stuff happens.
Prudence anticipates
stuff happens.
If, or perhaps more to point, when . . . stuff happens:
Canada grants individuals PR status to facilitate the immigration of those individuals to Canada, so they can settle and live
permanently in Canada. That is the purpose of granting PR status. Thus, while half-in, half-out, will meet the PR RO, and should not in itself cause a problem, if something else along the way raises a concern, or causes a problem, my sense is that a PR who has
NOT permanently settled in Canada risks a more probing, less liberal if not outright less friendly, or even skeptical approach from CBSA or IRCC. We get a glimpse of the discontent this causes, here, in topics about the travails of Secondary Review.
On a practical note:
I concur in the observation by
Bs65. When it is time to apply to renew your PR card, that would be a good time to plan staying for a good while in Canada, before and after making the application. (Making the application soon after arriving after an extended absence, longer than a routine holiday, which is weeks not months, seems likely to risk SR or a more robust Residency Determination. And, leaving Canada while the application is pending appears to more clearly elevate the risks of a problematic process.)
A more or less obvious snowbird schedule for a person in the retirement phase of life may not invite any concerns at all let alone problems.
But context matters. A snowbird schedule could be rather incongruous and likely to raise questions for some PRs, while in itself not inviting questions for others.
This alludes to just one isolated circumstance, age or some other stage-of-life factor, which can tip how things go toward a very different direction for individuals otherwise apparently in very similar situations. (Among some of the most misleading answers one sees in these forums is the
"this is how it went for me, so . . . " Individual reports are
not a good guide to how things will go for everyone else.)
