[#Immigration ## The difference between maple leaf card and Canadian nationality] Now, many people often ask me that I have obtained the identity of Canadian permanent residents, that is, I get a green card. Do you still want to apply for Canadian citizenship? Let us analyze the differences between each person's maple leaf card and Canadian nationality. Let's take a look.

1. The difference between Maple Leaf Card and Canadian nationality

With the implementation of the C-6 Law, the time to obtain Canadian citizenship has been greatly shortened, and the conditions for applying for Canadian citizenship are becoming easier and easier. I believe many people are very excited about this. However, once joining the Canadian nationality means giving up Chinese nationality, this also makes many people have difficulty choices.

Once Chinese nationality is lost, it basically cannot find it, so be cautious when facing this problem. So, what is the difference between holding Maple Leaf Card and owning Canadian citizenship?

Equal

In fact, if you hold a maple leaf card, you can enjoy most of the equal treatment of Canadian citizens. For example, social welfare, medical security, and various policies and rights enjoyed by legal residents of Canada.

Different rights and interests

1. Canadian citizens actually enjoy more than 150 free visa travels in more than 150 countries/regions. If you only hold maple leaf cards, you need to apply for a tourist visa. If you want to travel abroad.

2. Canadian citizens also enjoy political rights at the same time, that is, they can serve among national politics and legal departments, as well as voting rights and election rights.

3. If you apply to become a Canadian citizen, then you must give up Chinese nationality and no longer hold a Chinese passport. Whether you return to China or visit relatives, you need to go to the embassy to apply for a Chinese visa. On the contrary, if you hold a maple leaf card, you can go to China and Canada freely without any procedures.

Note: Holding the maple leaf card will also face a repatriation risk

According to the trial of the Federal Court of Canada, a Chinese man rejected the permanent resident identity due to false statements because of the false statement because he exaggerated his income in the immigration application of family immigration applications, and issued and issued a repatriation order.

In fact, there are also repatriation to accommodate the maple leaf card. Generally speaking, the reasons for repatriation include false statements in immigration documents, criminal laws that violate more than 6 months, and insufficient residence in Canada. These situations may be required to leave the country. In addition, if you only retain long -term permanent resident identity without applying for Canadian citizenship, it may lead to permanent rejection in the future.

Choose according to your own situation

All in all, if you need to return to China for work or family reasons, it is recommended that you keep the maple leaf card. Because if you are naturalized in Canada, this means that you will always have nothing to do with Chinese citizens. You still need to apply for a Chinese visa to return to China. Some people even refuse to sign because you tend to absurd: you have a tendency to immigrate. Therefore, although applying for a Chinese visa is not complicated, restrictions on rules still make you trouble.

If you don't need to return to China frequently and decide to live in Canada in the future, it is recommended that you become a citizen as soon as possible. Due to the issuance of the C-6 Citizenship Act, I think that applications and obtaining Canadian citizenship will become easier.

2. Must be naturalized after immigration to Canada?

If naturalized Canada

1. You can hold the passport of a free visa 172 country and say that you will leave

According to the British and global passport index rankings, Canada ranks sixth in the number of visas in 172 countries/regions, and ranks sixth in the names of Ireland, Switzerland, Portugal and other countries. Even the number of German passports at the top of the ranking is only 5 non -visa countries.

According to the latest reports of the Liberty Group, the "Four Kingdom Interoperability Plan" in Canada, Britain, New Zealand and Australia is steadily promoting. Once the plan is implemented, holding a Canadian passport is equivalent to picked up four passports. These passports can freely enter and leave the other three countries, that is, unlimited work, business, tourism, pension, reading, etc.

2. No need to worry about losing Canada Maple Leaf Card

In Chinese immigrant families, a "flying man" usually travels to Canada and China. Once they cannot meet the requirements of life, they will lose the maple leaf card they can finally get. If you are a Canadian citizenship, you don't have to worry about residence. Back to Canada has more free choices.

But there is a problem that cannot be ignored. China does not recognize dual nationality. Once you are naturalized in Canada, you will have an embassy to apply for a Chinese visa in the future. It will be a bit troublesome. Of course, this problem cannot be solved. You can also spend $ 200,000 (equivalent to about 1.31 million yuan) to invest in Green Nada passports that can be exempted from China.

3. Can participate in politics

If you want to try to be committed to politics, then you can only have the right to vote and be elected by citizenship.

If you keep the status of a permanent resident in Canada

1. You can continue to retain Chinese citizenship and enjoy Canada's benefits at the same time

In addition to the right to voting and the right to be elected, the social welfare, medical security, and educational resources of Canadian permanent residents and Canadian citizens are almost different. In order to retain Chinese citizenship, you can continue to enjoy the rights and interests of Chinese citizens.

2. It can promote it in Canada, China

If you have something that you can't give up in China, you must return to China frequently, immigrate to Canada for children's education and living environment, and more suitable for maintaining Canadian permanent identity. You don't need to apply for a visa to return to China, you don't have to worry about being rejected. However, in this case, we must pay attention to meet the requirements of residence as much as possible to avoid unable to update the maple leaf card.

Once there is no choice, you can also consider applying for a 10 -year turn visa in Canada to meet the needs of the party. After the spouse meets the citizenship, after becoming a Canadian citizen, he will apply for a couple's party immigration with the help of immigration experts.

3. What are the conditions for Canadian citizenship?

According to the provisions of the Canadian Citizen Law, from the date of applying for citizenship, in the past 6 years, permanent residents who have actually lived in Canada for 4 years are qualified to apply for joining Canadian citizens and obtain Canadian citizens.

Although it can be expressed in the past 6 years, it can be used for 4 years, depending on time. When the residents obtained the maple leaf card, this did not come from the residents, but started from the application of the applicant's application for citizenship. It has been promoted for 6 years. It took 4 years to apply for a citizen.

Now it shows that the actual stay in Canadian citizenship is 4 years: 4 years:

Six years have lived for 4 years = actual life in Canada (after obtaining permanent residence) legal status time, and then obtain permanent residence right

Special time:

Sentences do not include in actual stay time, including prisons, enrollment and education, cells, labor camps, conditional sentence periods, probation or parole

Life time in Canada before permanent residents:

Foreign detective/study abroad

(Although these two life time is also considered a legal time, this legal life time can only be calculated within half a day)

= Canadian immigration file recommendation =