Time outside Canada toward fulfilling citizenship requirement?

[parpari]

Hello everyone,
I am a Canadian PR and I have been outside of Canada (in the US) for about 3 years now. For the last 2 years, my salary was paid by a Canadian Government Fellowship (from Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, NSERC) to support my research studies in a Top Research Institute. Since my salary is paid by a Canadian Government Institution, could I count the numbers of days that I was paid by NSERC toward my Citizenship requirements? I should mention I am not a student, I am a researcher and my salary comes from the Fellowship from NSERC.
I appreciate it if anyone who knows about such situations could share their info with me.
Cheers,

 

[daktrader]

You are working for the Govt of Canada overseas...
This meet your residency/citizenship requirements...You can read up further on the CIC website.

Hello everyone,
I am a Canadian PR and I have been outside of Canada (in the US) for about 3 years now. For the last 2 years, my salary was paid by a Canadian Government Fellowship (from Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, NSERC) to support my research studies in a Top Research Institute. Since my salary is paid by a Canadian Government Institution, could I count the numbers of days that I was paid by NSERC toward my Citizenship requirements? I should mention I am not a student, I am a researcher and my salary comes from the Fellowship from NSERC.
I appreciate it if anyone who knows about such situations could share their info with me.
Cheers,

 

[us2yow]

Even in case of standard Govt of Canada posting overseas - time spent abroad is good for PR purposes but definitely not for Citizenship.

One has to reside in Canada for that.

Lets take a random example, for arguments sake, a single male, PR with Canadian forces overseas or say as a contractor with very very specialized skills with a Canadian Embassy (I say very very specialized because that then covers the fact that though he is PR, he was able to get hired into govt because of those extremely unique skills- as we know its not that easy or common for PRs to just work in govt)

Then this guy would be OK to preserve PR status when working overseas in above example - but it does not apply to qualifying for citizenship.

Yours does appear to be Govt of Canada (directly or indirectly), so likely same rules mentioned above apply.

That being said, lets see what others say too... Also good to ultimately check with CIC as well.

 

[rayman_m]

You will need to live in Canada 1095 days as per current law (but for your case you will need 1460 days as new rule of residency will be in placed under C-24 citizenship act). Which means your citizenship is a distance goal...

 

[Msafiri]

Hello everyone,
I am a Canadian PR and I have been outside of Canada (in the US) for about 3 years now. For the last 2 years, my salary was paid by a Canadian Government Fellowship (from Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, NSERC) to support my research studies in a Top Research Institute. Since my salary is paid by a Canadian Government Institution, could I count the numbers of days that I was paid by NSERC toward my Citizenship requirements? I should mention I am not a student, I am a researcher and my salary comes from the Fellowship from NSERC.
I appreciate it if anyone who knows about such situations could share their info with me.
Cheers,

Sounds like you are a student to me with funding from the NSERC so the time wouldn't count...what visa are you under in the US? Also do you have a contract of employment? I think you need to worry about your PR and potentially breaching the Residence Obligation then look into your citizenship!!!