The maple leaf card is valid for five years, and the cardholder can return to Canada within the validity time of the maple leaf card. However, don't think that "permanent" residents can "permanently" maintain their immigration status unconditionally. If you don't deal with it seriously, you may lose your "permanent" resident status.

Canadian immigration law requires every Canadian permanent resident to meet the living requirements of at least two years in Canada in any five years. "Residence" does not require this location. As long as it accumulates to 730 days, the time can be continuous or discontinuous.

Especially for those permanent residents living outside Canada, they should be more careful if the maple leaf card has expired and want to return to Canada. First, you need to apply for a document called "Travel Documents". This travel document is round trip and it stipulates that you must enter Canada within 60 days of the release date. Not all applicants will be approved. Whether the approval depends on the applicant's personal circumstances. Travel document visa type is similar to visiting family visa.

The easiest measure is that the actual number of days added in the past five years must reach at least 730 days from the date of submission of the application. Additional residence time before these five years will not be considered as the number of days that meet the residence requirements.

If you do not stay for 730 days, your overseas residence time will also be calculated under the following circumstances:

1. Living with a spouse or cohabiting partner who is already a Canadian citizen

2. Being hired in Canadian business or public service organizations outside Canada to work in a reasonable business and work full time for this. A Canadian business is defined as a company established under Canadian law or the province of Canada and continues to operate in Canada; or a company that continues to operate in Canada, capable of generating revenue and obtaining expected profits, with most of its voting rights or all of its interests being Canadian citizens or A permanent resident of Canada or a Canadian business master, as described above; or an organization or business created by Canadian provincial law.

3. If the immigration officer determines that you have not met the 730-day living conditions in the past five years, the immigration officer will not only refuse the travel document application, but will further cancel your immigration status. Of course, before revoking immigration status, immigration officials will consider the following reasons:

If you lose your permanent resident status, you will face an unusual, unfair and unparalleled dilemma. For example, if you have a work contract with the company you have at your original residence, you must return to your original residence to complete the contract, or return to your original residence to end. business, or export Canadian products to Canada and elsewhere, or difficulties you or your family suffer from losing permanent resident status.

Approval is entirely determined by immigration officials based on specific circumstances. If you are cancelled, you can make the above suggestions within 60 days, but the above methods will take a lot of time and money. The above is a description of how to keep the maple leaf card when immigrating to Canada without enough time to live. I hope this will be helpful for your study abroad. If you still have some questions while studying abroad in Canada, please call AOJI for consultation.