Or Canada could also stop allowing what appears to have happened here. Family got PR and briefly moved to Canada decades ago. Have used the PR as a vehicle for children to immigrate which often involves attending post secondary education at domestic rates.
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Or Canada could also stop allowing what appears to have happened here. Family got PR and briefly moved to Canada decades ago. Have used the PR as a vehicle for children to immigrate which often involves attending post secondary education at domestic rates.
Hi, I Submitted My PRTD and hopefully get a positive determination,
And to your point made here I Completely Agree its Not Fair For A Person Who's family has not contributed to Canada whatsoever including but not limited to not paying taxes ect and for someone including their children to get Tuition Relief is extremely unfair and a huge slap in the face to all taxpayers in Canada
In My Case I Just Want To Return And Work/Live Here and possibly contribute with the skill sets I have, Do not mind paying international fees at all and if I were to attend university/higher edu frankly id voluntarily want to pay the international fees, Canada PR should not be used like an insurance policy and should have reciprocal advantages for both the PR Status Holder and the country.
Id No doubt want to immigrate to Canada again possibly with my own set of skills but at the moment thats a long shot and could take years also its hard to stay separated for a long period of time, that being said I made a mistake of not submitting the PRTD earlier.
Well regardless whatever decision comes negative or positive id be happy and possibly immigrate to Canada on my own merit if it were possible now or in the future.
Anyway Really Appreciate all the advice I got in this thread!!!
It was like that under the former immigration act it said PR should stay 180 days every year or you would have lost PR Status, under the new act IRPA laws were changed.
The residency obligation is already linear it only asks you to spend 40% in the 5 yrs in fact it you can spend more time outside Canada than Inside Canada, so its more than fair that PR holders should comply with that requirement.
For children who accompanied parents the decision gets more complicated ethically speaking, but I agree with your point that this is unfair and it is rather not in all cases but in most cases used in a manner in which the IRPA was not intended.
Nobody is complaining about children who have spent a large portion of their childhood in Canadian or even years while in high school for example wanting to return because they were removed against their will as a minor. We see many examples of people who have spent less than a year and often weeks to months in Canada returning once they reach adulthood. They have very little ties to Canada and their life would not be significantly affected if they could not return. Canada has slowly tightened the rules but more people seem to be aware of this “loophole”.
I'm not personally so concerned about the domestic tuition rates thing, at least in cases where those that benefit from the tuition difference end up staying in Canada (lifelong, paying taxes, etc). The difference is a drop in the bucket.
Sponsoring the parents later? Well, I think you know where I stand on PGP (hint: it's stupid), but this is not the most crazy abuse of it I've seen - seems multiple siblings in Canada, etc. Not worth any effort to get incensed about this case.
If I were to wear the public policy hat in this case, I'd still say get rid of PGP, but spend more time on (eg) citizenship for those that've already left Canada.
But hey, opinions are like a certain body part.