Canada's immigration policy stipulates that each maple leaf card is valid for five years, and a new maple leaf card must be replaced after five years. So how to change the time of the maple leaf card?

The condition for changing the maple leaf card is "survived for two years (730 days in total). If this situation cannot be met, Canada will not issue a new maple leaf card unless the situation applies to the exception of immigration law. Once there is no maple leaf card, it means that it is impossible to enter Canada normally.

It seems that meeting this condition is necessary to retain permanent residence in Canada. How to correctly understand this?

Experts explain that this kind of "life" has no requirement for location, and as long as it accumulates to 730 days, the time can be continuous or discontinuous.

The easiest measure is that the actual number of days added in the five years since the date of filing the application must reach at least 730 days. 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. Accompany spouses or cohabiting partners outside Canada who are already Canadian citizens;

2. Hire from Canadian businesses or public services outside Canada, employ reasonable businesses, and work full time for this. A Canadian business is defined as a company established under the laws of Canada or the province of Canada and continuously operates in Canada; or a company that continues to operate in Canada, capable of generating revenue and achieving expected profits, in which most voting rights or all interests are controlled by Canadian citizens, Canadian permanent residents or Canadian businesses, as described above; or an organization or business created by Canadian provincial laws.

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, immigration officials will consider the following reasons before revoking their immigration status:

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 your business, or operate and export Canadian products, travel to and from Canada and elsewhere, or you or your family suffer losses from permanent resident status.

Approval is entirely determined by immigration officials based on specific circumstances. If the status is cancelled, the above method can be proposed within 60 days, but the above method will require a lot of time and money.

For those permanent residents living outside Canada, they must be more careful if the maple leaf card has expired and want to return to Canada. First, they have to apply for a document called a “travel document.” This travel document is round-trip, which stipulates that they must enter Canada within 60 days of the issuance date. Not all applicants will be approved. Whether the approval depends on the applicant's personal circumstances. Travel document visa type is similar to visit visa.