Working Outside Canada

You have to be hired by the Canadian company IN CANADA, and then transferred overseas later. The company's HQ must be here and they should have Canadian operations/employees/offices/HQ

Thats the way it works, not the other way....It's not that easy to work around the PR residency obligations. If Canada has given you an opportunity then you should come and live here.

ditto blackpearl re citizenship: physical presence in Canada is required for the requisite time (basically three out of the four years immediately preceding the date you submit the app for citizenship).

also ditto the information taken from CIC website.
I think it is important to be sure that the company you work for meets the requirements of a "Canadian" business, in order for that to count.

Note: while you can be interviewed about meeting the residency requirement upon entry into Canada, as a PR you are entitled to entry -- even after the PR card has expired (problem there, though, is getting on the plane . . . since a commercial airline is not likely to accept an expired PR card -- but if you can get yourself to a Canadian POE, they have to let you in). If it appears that you have not met the residency requirement, CBSA (at the POE, including in an airport) can only make a record of that and a referral for an investigation; they cannot refuse you entry. You don't want things to get to that stage, but you do not have to worry about not being allowed into Canada. I would definitely carry some proof of working for a Canadian company and, if the question is raised, try to persuade CBSA at the POE that you do meet the residency because you were working for a Canadian company, but, again, it is not as if a conclusive decision is made at that point whether or not you have met the residency requirement -- CIC would have to commence revocation of PR proceedings.

And, all a PR has to do is get back into Canada, and once in Canada if they stay two years, that satisfies the two in five requirement, even if they were gone ten years before that. (Requirement only applies to the last five years.) I have seen a case where a PR entered Canada on a visitor visa (he had surrendered his PR card to a Canadian embassy in a foreign country years before), stayed more than two years, and that was sufficient to re-establish his compliance with the residency requirement.

Should note, though, I tend to agree with the idea that if you want to be "a Canadian" there comes a time when you should try living in Canada. (My wife is giving me a hard time about how much I want to be a Canadian because I could not cheer without qualification for the Canadian hockey team when they were playing against the Americans . . . she would not accept, as sufficient, that I wholeheartedly cheer for the Canadian curling team even when going against the Americans.)

Thanks guys for all the valuable info. One more question in regards to the OHIP card (ontario)...what documents do I need to apply for one?

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