After new immigrants land in Canada, they will receive a notification of Maple Leaf Card in the mail. Upon entry, border officials will check personal documents, including photos, and the card will be mailed within three weeks. When a person with newly obtained permanent status arrives for the first time, if he is unable to provide a Canadian residential address at the time of entry, or if he needs to change his address, he must declare a new address. If you fail to report your contact address to the Immigration Bureau within the time limit, you must reapply for permanent residence status and pay the fee. Please pay attention to this matter. If you have not received your red card thirty days after submitting your address information, please contact the Immigration Bureau immediately.

Maple Leaf Card applications can only be submitted within Canada. The applicant must have a citizen living in Canada as a guarantor. The guarantor needs to have known the applicant for more than two years, and the applicant must complete the residence test regardless of whether he or she applies for the first time or re-applies.

Residency obligations for Canadian permanent residents:

To apply for permanent residence in Canada, you need to meet the residency requirements. If you have held the status for five years or more, you must have actually lived for more than 730 days in the last five years. If you have held the status for less than five years, you need to ensure that the total number of residence hours within the five years reaches 730 days.

To apply for Canadian permanent resident status, whether for the first time or again after five years, you must complete the residence test. All holders of Canadian permanent residence status must actually live for 730 days in a five-year period. If the number of days of residence after landing in a certain five-year period is less than 730 days, but the following five special circumstances are met, it can also be regarded as meeting the residence requirements. The time spent abroad can be included in the total number of days, proving that the residence obligations have been fulfilled:

1. Accompany Canadian citizens abroad:

Reside in Canada with a family member who is a Canadian citizen;

All time spent overseas caring for a Canadian citizen must be your significant other, common-law partner, or, if you are under 22, an immediate family member

2. Overseas employment:

Full-time employees working for Canadian companies who are abroad, or full-time civil servants holding Canadian government positions abroad.

For workers outside Canada, every day they work abroad can be counted. You must be a full-time employee employed by a Canadian company or posted abroad, or a full-time civil servant assigned by the Canadian government to work overseas, and you must meet the following conditions:

(1) Positions outside Canada

(2) Related companies outside Canada

(3) Canadian companies or Canadian official customers outside Canada

3. Accompany Canadian permanent residents abroad

Every day you accompany a Canadian permanent resident abroad can be counted. This permanent resident must be your significant other, your common living partner, or if you are a child under 22 years old, your parents. Provided that the permanent resident's significant other meets the conditions for overseas work, that is, an immediate relative who is sent abroad by a Canadian company to work full-time, or an immediate relative who is sent abroad to serve in the Canadian government. In this case, you can live abroad with this family member.

4. Hold a valid re-entry permit

Holders of valid re-entry permits can be included in the calculation every day they are abroad.

5. Humanitarian reasons

If the residence requirements cannot be met due to irresistible humanitarian conditions, it may also be a factor in determining whether to maintain permanent resident status, and the immigration department will inform whether a supplementary review is required.