PR card

Hi Mina,

4 weeks printing time corelates to the minimum "urgen processing time". You have to expect 2 weeks for the shipping and another 2 weeks for the letter from local CIC office.

If you do not plan to travel, there is no need to rush. So maybe just wait.

But still give the local CIC office a shout. Maybe they can help.

When I landed in 2006 for some reason my picture was not accepted from the processing center. I landed in June and got an invitation for taking a new picture in November at a firm date and time. But I needed to leave the country again in September. In the letter and even on the phone they were not willing to change the appointment. I just went to the local office in Vancouver in person and a friendly officer said, that it is no problem doing it right now (August). So going there might help.

I would say so. You have to pick the new card up in person and return your old card.
If you can go there or call them. But visiting might be better.

abbeyuk:

How long it takes to obtain the Travel Document (TD) probably depends on which embassy you need to apply through and, to some extent, on the particulars . . . where you landed as a PR less than three years ago (meaning there is still more than 730 days before the 5 year anniversary of your landing, the date by which you need to have been in Canada for at least 730 days to be in compliance with the PR residency obligation), it should not be complicated, mostly a matter of confirming identity.

I do not know how long TDs are good for, but not for long is my impression. I'd suggest applying for it a few week before planning to return to Canada.

Regarding citizenship:

The residency obligation for citizenship is that you must be "resident-in-Canada" for at least three years out of the four years immediately preceding the date you apply. The practical side of this means that you must be actually, physically present in Canada for more than 1095 days in the four years preceding your application.

So no, you cannot be outside Canada for two out of five years preceding applying for citizenship and still qualify, unless one of those years was totally before the beginning of the four year period immediately preceding the application for citizenship . . . and even then that would be cutting it way too close. Not wise to apply for citizenship without having a margin well over the minimum requirements.

Payment of Canadian taxes is not a requirement for citizenship, but of course to become a citizen you must be resident in Canada and if you are resident in Canada you must pay Canadian taxes.

Since you did not begin living in Canada immediately after landing, if you want to become a citizen you need to firmly establish a residence in Canada and then maintain that residence, and before applying be certain to have been actually, physically present in Canada for at least three full years within the four years preceding the date of applying. (And I suggest being in Canada long enough over and above that to establish a margin . . . and especially so for someone like you who did not establish a residence in Canada soon after landing.)

Thanks My Friend.

abbeyuk wrote: 1)How often i have to renew PR card.? I became PR on Nov 2010

PR card is valid for five years.

But you have to understand a valid PR card and having a status of a PR are two different and independant things. YOU DO NOT NEED a valid PR card to be a legitimate PR!!!

You only need a valid PR card for traveling outside Canada. Actually just to return to Canada!
You need to understand that.

Keeping the status of a legitimate PR you need at least 730 days of physical presence in Canada within the proceeding 5 years. If you became a PR less than 5 years ago, the days present + the remaining days until the end of the first 5 years since landing (date you became a PR).
Again you have to understan that.