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    Posted: 13 Jan 2011 at 11:43pm
Thanks a lot for all the information.
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You'll be able to sponsor your wife provided you are living in Canada (as a PR, you must be living in Canada in order to sponsor and you must continue living in Canada while the application is processed). From an income standpoint, you can't be on social assistance/welfare and you can't be bankrupt. Other than that, there are no income requirements to sponsor a spouse.
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Passport request: 10/01/2010
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one more question.

Considering my scenario, the purpose of my short trip (7 days) will be to get married. Will I be able to sponsor my wife after i come back, provided i will have full time permanent job in Canada.
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I do not know how this particular scenario would play out.

July 2010 is long past now. Aug 2011 is just over 200 days away.

The variables at play are many, and difficult to definitively predict. One can mostly talk about risks, perhaps even to some extent probabilities, but more of the "if ... then" sorts of probabilities because, again, there are so many variables and so many directions the POE contact can go in.

Bottom line though: less than 300 days in Canada by fifth year anniversary sounds like a high risk for a residency examination at the POE followed by a inadmissibility report and removal order . . . not at all certain how it would go, but I suspect the risk is high, though, again, depending on other factors: immediate family well-established in Canada probably would help, a firm job in Canada probably would help, but whether or not they would help enough I do not dare guess.
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I posted in an earlier thread, I have fallen very short of meeting the 730 day requirement, and will not meet it when my card expires in Aug 2011. I am trying to move permanently by July 2010, though still doubtful since I am not finished my studies in the US. I have not been to Canada since 2008.I wondered if it would help if I travelled for just one day or a weekend every month while the card is still valid, or would that just raise red flags?
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I think question is not clear
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A related question is: If you cannot make it for a longer period for now, is it a good or bad thing to enter Canada for 1 day to get your passport stamped?
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If you cannot make it for a lomger period, is it a good or bad thing to enter Canada for 1 day just to get your passport stamped?
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I am not certain, not at all, but I have the strong impression that it is simply NOT a good idea to apply to renew the PR card unless and until you have met the 730 residency obligation.

The 1095 days in section D of the instructional materials you linked is about a PR who has, in the last five years, been absent for 1095 or more days . . . basically the other side of the 730 days in five years coin. Five years equals 1095 days plus 730 days (remember, February 29 in leap years does not count, not either way, it is as if the day never existed).

The first five year period runs from the date you landed -- the date your PR card expires is basically totally irrelevant (even though for the first time round, it will expire around five years later plus however long it took to process it). Again, the obligation to get in 730 days in Canada is to have that done by the 1825th day (not counting any Feb 29) following THE DAY YOU LANDED.

Beginning the day after your fifth year anniversary since landing, you must always have been in Canada for 730 days in the immediately preceding five year time frame in order to not be in breach of the residency obligation. Thus, for example, if your PR card expires five years plus 35 days after you landed . . . by the day your PR card expires you must have been in Canada 730 days NOT counting any of the first 35 days after landing (because they precede, that is are outside, the five year time frame) . . . and so on and so on into the future.

Bottom line: if at all possible avoid travel except this one trip you are talking about, and do not apply for the PR card renewal until you can document 730 days in Canada. There is nothing wrong with letting the PR card expire except you cannot use it to travel abroad! Just live with an expired PR card until you can safely apply for a new one showing you have met the residency requirement.

Now this is not absolutely necessary! They are fairly lenient, it appears, about not meeting the 730 day requirement depending though on circumstances, the why, and so on . . . but there is no reason to take any chances with this, best to simply wait until you are in compliance with the 730 requirement and then apply.
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Thank you for your reply. 

I have also checked to apply process of new PR card. See the video please. It says how to fill up form to apply for new PR card:


In section D it says about 1095 days.

Will I be in trouble for not meeting this 1095 days requirement when I apply for new PR card?


Thanks again
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