According to Immigration Canada regulations: If you live within 5 years and have 2 years of residence, you can apply for a maple leaf card extension application to ensure your permanent resident status. To understand a specific algorithm for living in Canada for 2 years within 5 years, you must first understand how long you lived in Canada. Max's overseas editor will tell you how to calculate these five years.

1. Residence requirements for Canadian immigration prisons

According to the Canadian Immigration Agency, the following three conditions can satisfy the conditions for living in Canada:

1. I actually live in Canada;

2. Working overseas in a Canadian company (registered in Canada, with continuous operation records) or a Canadian government agency; currently, living abroad is considered to be living in Canada.

3. The companion spouse has a Canadian nationality and lives overseas.

Currently, living abroad is also considered to live in Canada. However, children with Canadian nationality who are accompanied overseas cannot be considered to live in Canada, while children under the age of 22 are considered Canadian nationality abroad and can be considered to live in Canada.

2. Specific algorithm for living in Canada for 2 years within 5 years

By understanding the concept of residence time in Canada, you can understand the algorithm for keeping maple leaf card time. Since the immigration login period, it is not the time to obtain a maple leaf card, and it is impossible to live for 2 years within 5 years. Its algorithm comes in two forms:

1. Reversal of the date you submitted your application for upgrading your maple leaf card and reside for 2 years within 5 years;

2. Starting from entering Canada, it has dropped to 5 years.

As long as it can be proved that through one of the three lifestyles mentioned above, any reverse method meets the requirements of 2 years of living, and it will meet the conditions for living within 5 years of 2 years. In this way, the problem faced is that the Immigration Bureau will apply for a maple leaf card extension based on a 5-year life, and the border department will decide whether to allow access to the country for 2 years with a 5-year life.

3. Problems that may be encountered in renewal

Applicants should meet the requirements of the Immigration Bureau and the Border Department as much as possible, otherwise, postpone the maple leaf card, i.e., if they have been logged in for more than 5 years, they may be entering and leaving the country. For example, those who received the Maple Leaf Card Extension in May 2010 will live for 2 years during any period from 2005 to 2010, possibly live for 1 year in 2005 and 2006, or 2005 or 2009 or 1 year in 1 year in 2005 or 2009 . This way, when you get a postponed new maple leaf card after May 2010 and leave Canada for return in May 2012, the Border Department will reverse the price for five years from May 2012.

That is, people who have lived there for two years from May 2007 to May 2012 can enter the country; otherwise, the Border Ministry has the right to prevent them from entering the country. Therefore, maple leaf card holders should pay attention to this and meet the requirements of the Immigration Bureau and the Border Department as much as possible during their stay.

The above is a related introduction to how to calculate the time to retain Canadian immigration status. Successfully obtaining the Canadian Maple Leaf Card will become a permanent resident of Canada. Such immigrant figures have almost the same rights as Canadian citizens. If you cannot meet the conditions for your stay time limit, your permanent resident status may be cancelled, so immigrants should be aware of this issue and prevent it from happening.

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