seniors, please your advice is needed

[canonly1]

Hi all,
I hope you have an answer to my inquiry. I have a friend who had to leave Canada after one year of his residency due to some complications in his university studies. He will have to leave for a year in order to graduate and come back. Do you think this would affect his PR? Is he allowed to leave Canada for a year?
Thanks for your answer,

 

[scylla]

Hi all,
I hope you have an answer to my inquiry. I have a friend who had to leave Canada after one year of his residency due to some complications in his university studies. He will have to leave for a year in order to graduate and come back. Do you think this would affect his PR? Is he allowed to leave Canada for a year?
Thanks for your answer,

To maintain PR status, you must live in Canada two out of every five years. Leaving for a year won't be a problem as long as the residency requirement is met.

 

[scottishK]

Another question for the seniors:

The expiry date on our PPRs is March 16th 2013. We are due a baby in April 2013... So, what to do?

Since we need to be in British Columbia (where we're headed) for 3 months prior to being entitled to medical care, we'd have to land early Jan, and for various reasons this isn't possible. So, do we:

1/ Land in Feb/March to activate visas then return home, have baby, then sponsor baby to come back with us?
2/ Inform Canadian High Commission in Canada now and see what they recommend?

Does anyone know what options we have? Ideally, it would be great if they suspended the PPRs and reissued once baby was born and had done medical, but it may mean we'd have to do our medicals again since they would have expired...?

Thanks in advance for any advice given
sK