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Returning Resident Permit
If you are a permanent resident and want to travel outside Canada for a lengthy period or several shorter trips, you may need to obtain a Returning Resident Permit. A permanent resident who stays outside Canada for more than six months in any 12-month period may be considered to have established residence elsewhere and may lose his or her permanent resident status.
What is the benefit of a returning resident permit? Canadian residents who are not citizens may lose their permanent resident (landed immigrant) status when they leave Canada to engage in activities that indicate their intention to make a permanent home elsewhere. An example of such an activity would be working in another country for a foreign employer.
Permanent residents who have been outside Canada for six months or more (in law, 183 days) in any 12-month period must prove to an immigration officer at a port of entry that they have not given up residence in Canada. This is necessary whether the absence has been a series of short trips or one long one.
When you return to Canada, even if you have a returning resident permit, you will be interviewed by an examining officer at the port of entry. The permit will help identify you as a permanent resident who traveled abroad with the intention of maintaining permanent resident status in Canada.
Although any permanent resident may apply for a returning resident permit, if you are traveling abroad on vacation, to visit relatives, or for other short-term purposes, you generally will not need one.
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