How long do you own to be a PR contained by Canada until that time you can apply for citizenship?
The CIC site says 2 years but everyone here is saying 3 years?!
"Time lived in Canada
To become Canadian citizens, adults must hold lived in Canada for at least three years (1,095 days) in olden times four years before applying. Children do not need to meet this requirement.
You may be capable of count time you spent in Canada before you became a lasting resident if that time falls within the four-year period."
So if I have lived contained by Canada for 7 years before applying for PR and then I get the PR after 2 years consequently I can wait another 2 years and then file for citizenship, right?
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizenship…
Thanks.
*panicking again*
Answers:
you be in Canada for 7 years before PR.
2 years before PR counts as 1 year after PR.
So you can count 2 years until that time PR (2 years being the maximum allowed before PR). and 2 years after PR.
this will cover the 4 years immediately up to that time the application for citizenship.
Technically you can apply to be a citizen 2 years after you landed - provided you did not take any holidays outside of Canada during that time.
I have equal thing as you. I was in Canada for 5 years back PR and I landed in December 2006. So in December this year (2008) I can properly apply to be a citizen. I have not been outside of Canada since I was land.
The three years is only for those who applied for PR outside of Canada and arrived in Canada on the day they be landed. They were never in Canada past they became a PR. They MUST wait the entire 3 years after landing to apply to be citizens. This refers to all outside relatives applications and all Skilled worker/entrepreneur and business class applications.
The day you become PR is when you "land". You get your PR visa and you hold to go to the border and get it processed. You get the PR card contained by the mail around a month later.
The general rule is 3 years as a PR within Canada to the day, if you left for 2 weeks on vacation, you hold to add that to the time. You are right though that you can count time in Canada before becoming PR so if you didn't move out Canada for one day in the two years before you get your PR and not for the next 2 years after, you can apply after exactly 2 years.
They decide when you send within your application if you qualify. They do not let you take the test unless you qualify so the citizenship conciliator has nothing to do with it.
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"Time lived in Canada
To become Canadian citizens, adults must hold lived in Canada for at least three years (1,095 days) in olden times four years before applying. Children do not need to meet this requirement.
You may be capable of count time you spent in Canada before you became a lasting resident if that time falls within the four-year period."
So if I have lived contained by Canada for 7 years before applying for PR and then I get the PR after 2 years consequently I can wait another 2 years and then file for citizenship, right?
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizenship…
Thanks.
*panicking again*
Answers:
you be in Canada for 7 years before PR.
2 years before PR counts as 1 year after PR.
So you can count 2 years until that time PR (2 years being the maximum allowed before PR). and 2 years after PR.
this will cover the 4 years immediately up to that time the application for citizenship.
Technically you can apply to be a citizen 2 years after you landed - provided you did not take any holidays outside of Canada during that time.
I have equal thing as you. I was in Canada for 5 years back PR and I landed in December 2006. So in December this year (2008) I can properly apply to be a citizen. I have not been outside of Canada since I was land.
The three years is only for those who applied for PR outside of Canada and arrived in Canada on the day they be landed. They were never in Canada past they became a PR. They MUST wait the entire 3 years after landing to apply to be citizens. This refers to all outside relatives applications and all Skilled worker/entrepreneur and business class applications.
The day you become PR is when you "land". You get your PR visa and you hold to go to the border and get it processed. You get the PR card contained by the mail around a month later.
The general rule is 3 years as a PR within Canada to the day, if you left for 2 weeks on vacation, you hold to add that to the time. You are right though that you can count time in Canada before becoming PR so if you didn't move out Canada for one day in the two years before you get your PR and not for the next 2 years after, you can apply after exactly 2 years.
They decide when you send within your application if you qualify. They do not let you take the test unless you qualify so the citizenship conciliator has nothing to do with it.
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