2/22/2018
Topic:
PR Card Renewal and Business Incorporation
gshanmg
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Dear Sir,
My family and I became Canadian PR in July 2014 where we travelled to Calgary and collected the PR cards. We stayed in the country for 21 days and left for home country.
The PR cards state expiry in Aug 2019.
In May 2017, we moved into Calgary, Canada permanently as Landed Immigrants/Settlers to fulfill the 2 year residency period in the country out of 5 years requirement.
My questions are as follows:
1) We will be accomplishing the required fulfillment of 2 years residency in the country by May 2019 (PR cards expiry in Aug 2019).
Does this mean, we could only apply for PR card renewal in May 2019 onward or could be done well before May 2019?
CIC website states the renewal to be done 9 months before the expiry of the PR card.
But based on the 9 months ahead of expiry we would not have satisfied the 2 year residency hence the query.
Please advise.
2) While in Canada, we are incorporating a freelance consultancy business (limited company with my wife and I being the Directors) where myself will be required to travel outside Canada on a regular rotational basis (5 weeks out of the country and 2 weeks in the country) to conduct the business for a 1 year contractual period commencing March 2018.
The consultancy payment will be remitted from overseas into our incorporated business account.
As it will be rotational nature of business, individually, I will not be able to fulfill the 2 year residency requirement however I will be directly engaged with my Canadian business ownership and other nature of self employment in Canada.
Therefore, will I be qualified to apply for the PR card renewal in this case scenario considering I am actively engaged in my own business in Canada though the nature of business requires travelling outside Canada on a regular pattern.
I really appreciate your precious time in answering my questions above.
Thanks. |
2/28/2018
Topic:
PR Card Renewal and Business Incorporation
gshanmg
|
Anna,
Thank you so much for the responses and clearing the doubts on the inquiries.
It's much clearer now on the residency renewal independent of PR card expiry provided can be proved to reside and fulfill the 2 years requirement beyond the expiry.
Appreciate your assistance. |