Hi. I have PR, and whilst residing in Canada, my Canadian born daughter needed to go to UK for a 2 month education/internship. She was 18. I read somewhere that if i accompany her (a full time student under 19) then my days abroad with her would count towards my Physical Presence days. But i simply cant find that info any more, on the govt websites. I need clarity plz.
Can any one shed more light on this plz?
As others have commented, with due emphasis it warrants noting, there is no provision that gives a PR parent credit toward Residency Obligation compliance for time spent accompanying their Canadian citizen child abroad, let alone credit toward the actual physical presence requirement for a grant of citizenship.
And there has not been any such credit for . . . well, at the least, a very, very long time.
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Whatever source you recall reading, it is extremely unlikely that IRCC online information
erroneously said there was such credit (again, there has been no such credit, so any information saying otherwise would necessarily be erroneous), even very briefly. Obviously, unfortunately, the likelihood of other sources
erroneously stating such information is all too possible, perhaps probable; perhaps even in this forum (though that would typically have triggered strongly worded corrections).
In particular, while I cannot claim to have read every version of IRCC online information about what counts toward the grant citizenship presence requirement, so far as I am aware (noting that I have been watching residency and presence related stuff since many years before there was a physical presence requirement for citizenship) online IRCC information
has never said a parent got RO credit for accompanying a Canadian citizen child, let alone credit toward meeting the citizenship physical presence requirement.
Meanwhile, I have read all the versions of the statutory provisions governing the physical presence requirement for citizenship, going back to the first version which took effect in June 2015, and FOR SURE the law itself has
NOT provided any credit to a parent accompanying a citizen child. This is covered in Section 5 of the Citizenship Act. And all the versions of this are readily accessible at the Canada Justice Laws Website, so you can see this for yourself --
(Note: Prior to June 11, 2015 there was a "residency requirement" rather than a physical presence requirement.)
In the meantime . . .
A minor child PR is entitled to credit toward RO compliance for days the child is abroad accompanying a Canadian citizen parent BUT NOT the other way around (no credit for parent accompanying Canadian citizen child abroad).
This has been the law since at least January 1, 2003. RO credit is prescribed by Section 28(2)(a) in IRPA (the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act).
The current version of this, the applicable version since March 31, 2005, is here:
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/I-2.5/page-5.html#h-274598
Over the years IRCC (before 2016 it was called CIC) online information has paraphrased the applications of the provisions governing RO credit for time abroad (including RO credit for PR-child accompanying a Citizen parent, and PR accompanying a Citizen spouse) in various ways. So far as I am aware (again noting that I have been watching RO related stuff for > 14 years) that information has never said a parent got RO credit for accompanying a Canadian citizen child . . .
BUT the way it has sometimes been stated has often been misconstrued or misunderstood. So this forum occasionally sees not only questions about PR parents getting credit, but even occasionally this or that post asserting a parent gets credit . . . or, to be clear,
ERRONEOUSLY asserting a parent can get credit for time abroad with a citizen child.
