What does the Maple Leaf Card do?

Maple Leaf Card holders can enjoy most of the same benefits as Canadian citizens, such as:

Excluding these benefits, as long as one person holds a Maple Leaf Card, his or her spouse and unmarried children under the age of 22 will immigrate to Canada with him or her. Elders such as parents can also apply for reunion immigration to live in Canada together and enjoy their old age.

What is the difference between a Maple Leaf Card and a Citizen?

How to choose? Should I naturalize?

Many people are also in a dilemma, whether they should choose to become a citizen or just be satisfied with obtaining a Maple Leaf Card. However, how to actually choose depends on personal needs:

People suitable for naturalization:

If there is a need to return to the country frequently, or if you have a career in China and have many family members, you can not go through the naturalization process for the time being. Otherwise, you will have to apply for a Chinese visa, and there will be many complicated regulations to add trouble.

How is the immigration fee for the Maple Leaf Card calculated?

Starting from the starting point of any review initiated by the Immigration Bureau, the calculation of immigration supervision will be carried out five years ago, and this has nothing to do with the validity period of the Maple Leaf Card and the login time.

Therefore, at a theoretical level, starting from any time node and working backwards in the past until a span of 5 years, you must meet the requirement of living for 2 years out of these 5 years.

According to your request, the date of each landing can be made clear. For example, the date of first landing was June 2013, and the time when the Maple Leaf Card was renewed was September 2018. In November 2018, you chose to leave the country and enter Canada again. Given that In this case, the customs will also conduct a review. The review period is from December 2013 to November 2018. The content of the review is whether the length of time you have lived in Canada has reached 2 years, which is 730 days and nights.

If the Maple Leaf Card has been held for less than 5 years, how is the immigration prison calculated?

Let’s give another example: your landing date was June 2013, you got your Maple Leaf Card in August 2013, then returned to your country, and entered Canada in March 2016.

The Immigration Bureau calculates it like this: the landing date is in June 2013, and the next five years starting from this landing date are until May 2018. As for you, during the five-year period before the entry date of March 2016, you only stayed in Canada for 2 months, that is, the period from June to August 2013. However, given that the time span from the time you landed to the day when the review was initiated did not reach the full five-year span, as long as you have not left Canada after entering Canada in March 2016, then on this specific date in May 2018, that is, the time point from when you first landed to the end of five years, it is possible for you to meet the requirements set by the immigration supervision. (To be specific, the first is a period of about 2 months in 2013, plus the time span of about 26 months from March 2016 to May 2018, the two time periods add up to more than 730 days). Through such situation analysis, you will not be refused entry to Canada under this situation.

However, if a person with Canadian PR status landed in Canada for the first time in June 2013, he also obtained a Maple Leaf Card in August 2013 and returned to the country; if he entered Canada again in August 2016, he would most likely be refused entry, which would affect his PR status. Because although it has been less than 5 years since landing, after entering in August 2016, even if you have been in Canada and not leaving, by May 2018, you can only stay in Canada for a maximum of 23 months during the first 5 years of landing, which must be less than 730 days.

What else should I pay attention to when calculating immigration supervision?

First of all, the time you lived in Canada before landing can be calculated in half.

For example, there is a person who is an international student in Canada. He has always maintained his status as a study and a worker in Canada, and then successfully immigrated with EE. Then, the period of time he lived in Canada before "landing" can be counted as half.

And it should be noted that if one day, you are in Canada even for just one second, then that day will be counted as living in Canada. For example, there is an example of another extreme situation, living on the border between Canada and the United States, going to the United States for work every day, and returning to Canada at night, then you can be regarded as living in Canada every day.

What happens if immigration authorities fail to meet the requirements?

If you do not meet the criteria for immigration supervision and do not fall into one of the above-mentioned exemptions, then you will generally be fine.

However, under the following circumstances, the Immigration Bureau will review your situation and cancel your permanent resident status.

It should be noted that when you are in the situation of customs entry, if you choose to conceal your permanent resident status and rely on other visas, such as tourist visas, to enter the country because you know that you cannot meet the relevant requirements of the immigration supervisor, this behavior is not feasible. And because he is suspected of deliberately misleading the customs, it is certain that the customs has the right to issue a deportation order to send him back.

If the immigration prison is not full, will I be pardoned?

Of course, this situation exists. When you are in a situation where you have not lived for two years due to the following reasons, you can be exempted: