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If you need more space to list your goods, you can type out your own list or fill out form B4A Personal Effects Accounting Document (list of goods imported) [PDF] .

The "Use of a Representative" form for one. I am just renewing my card..I am not using a rep. Do I have to fill that one out? Or do I just put N/A in all of the spots on the form? Then other people told me to just fill out the main form IMM5444E.

So my first question is...Since I am only renewing my card, what forms MUST I fill out for that, and where should I be putting N/A if I need to send in ALL of the forms?

Next, in the spot where you write down each time in the last 5 years have I traveled outside of Canada, all I have for any kind of stay was when my mom died, and I was in the states for her funeral for I think 3 or 4 days. I can't remember that well.

But there have been maybe 3 or 4 times that I went across the border with my in-laws for lunch and shopping, no longer than 3 or 4 hours each of those times.

Do I have to write those trips down too?

6.4 Day
Section 27(2) of the Interpretation Act governs the calculation of time limits in federal statutes. Where a statute refers to a number of days between two events (and precedes the number of days with the words “at least”), both the day of occurrence of the first event as well as the day of occurrence of the second event are to be counted in calculating the number of days. For the purpose of calculating the number of days to comply with the residency obligation in IRPA A28(2)(a), a day includes a full day or any part of a day that a permanent resident is physically present in Canada. Any part of a day spent in Canada, or otherwise in compliance with A28(2)(a), is to be counted as one full day for the purpose of calculating the 730 days in a five-year period.

While I am thinking about it, listing of jobs in the form....I don't have all the exact dates of starting and ending of jobs...what do I do there? I can't remember dates that well as you can now see.

The first 4 years I was working only at one place so that is easy, then the last half of last year was bad. I held one job that was way over my head for about 8 weeks, worked at a pizza place for a month, Had unemployment for about a month, a fast food place for a month until the job I was trying for opened up and have been working there happily ever since with my husband.

I took a look at the T-4's that I do have in hand....and did a best guess on the rest, but I don't think that will be good enough. What can you tell me about that?

6.5 Employment outside of Canada

The Regulations enable permanent residents to comply with the residency obligations while working abroad, provided that:

- they are under contract to or are full-time employees of a Canadian business or in the public service, where the assignment is controlled from the head office of a Canadian business or public institution in Canada;
- they are assigned on a full-time basis as a term of their employment or contract to a position outside Canada with that business, an affiliated enterprise or a client;
- they maintain a connection to a Canadian business;
- they are assigned on a temporary basis to the work assignment; and
- they will continue working for the employer, in Canada, after the assignment.