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    Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 11:12am
Hello everyone,

I have a question about spending time abroad with a Canadian citizenship and I hope you can help me.

My dad used to have a permanent resident for Canada, but recently changed it to a citizenship. Then he had a dual passport for two countries. But now the other one expired. Since the two countries don't have an agreement he can't renew his other passport. So now he's 'only' a Canadian Citizen.

When he was a permanent resident he could only spend a certain amount of days abroad with his wife who lives in a different country. How is this now that he is a Canadian citizen?

I hope I asked this question in the wright place. If not, please redirect me! :-)

Thanks in advance!

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it depends what do you mean by abroad? His home country? 
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Abroad is in the Netherlands... His 'home' country is now Canada, only Canada, cause of his citizenship. And cause he's not able to renew his Dutch passport.

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most of the countries allow 6 months...
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it depends on the agreement between both countries.
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thanks for the answers, does anyone know where I can find this agreement?
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90 days for netherlands
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mmh, maybe I said it wrong... I'll try and explain again.

through out the year he lives mostly in the Netherlands. Every two to tree months he goes to Canada for about about 10 days... So calculated that would be approx: 50 days in Canada the rest else where...

Is that allowed with a Canadian citizenship?
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Hi Mel!na

Once someone is Canadian he is allowed to live elsewhere for an unlimited period of time without losing his Canadian citizenship. So yes even if he doesn't enter Canada for a long period of time (more than 10 years if you want) he will still be Canadian an able to renew his passport.

 
Originally posted by Mel!na Mel!na wrote:

mmh, maybe I said it wrong... I'll try and explain again.

through out the year he lives mostly in the Netherlands. Every two to tree months he goes to Canada for about about 10 days... So calculated that would be approx: 50 days in Canada the rest else where...

Is that allowed with a Canadian citizenship?
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Side note going back to the first post about the expired passport which cannot be renewed:

It is rare that citizenship would be predicated on having a valid passport, lost upon expiration of the passport. For most nationalities the passport can be expired for decades and the person nonetheless remains a citizen. So it sounds odd that someone who was a citizen of two countries is somehow, suddenly, now a citizen of only one because the passport for the other expired.

On the other hand, some countries require or consider citizenship to be abandoned or revoked if someone becomes the citizen of another country (someone mentioned Germany in this context recently, though I do not know if that is correct). In these instances, it is the taking of an oath as a Canadian citizen that results in the loss of the other citizenship.

I do not know what the underlying situation is here, but it would be highly unusual for a person to lose citizenship of a country because the passport expired.
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BTW: Not an expert, not a Can. lawyer, never worked in immigration
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