Maple Leaf Card is essentially similar to a five-year multiple round trip visa and a valid proof of identity. This card is not the equivalent of permanent residence. Once expired, it means you will not be able to enter and exit the Canadian border at will, but this does not mean that permanent residence will be lost. Only when you commit an extremely serious crime, deprived of it, expelled by the government, or voluntarily waived, will you lose your permanent residence be lost and it will not automatically disappear due to the expiration of the maple leaf card.

The renewal of the maple leaf card must meet certain living conditions. Once this standard is met, the cardholder can directly go through the replacement procedures in Canada; if he is outside Canada, he must apply for travel documents from the Canadian embassy and consulate in his local area, which is equivalent to a visa.

If the specified residence time is not reached and you want to maintain your original identity, you must return to Canada before the maple leaf card expires and continue to live in Canada until the conditions for applying for renewal of the maple leaf card are met. Once the maple leaf card expires outside of Canada, the situation will become extremely complicated because you will lose the valid visa to return to Canada by then.

Often, Canadian permanent residents who have lived in China for a long time choose to maintain their identity through the means of being affiliated with a Canadian company that exists in the form of the company being sent to work in China. They will pay taxes in Canada according to law, so that the time they stay in China has the same identity retention effect as the time they are in Canada.