On June 28, 2002, Canada began to formally implement the new immigration law - Immigration and Refugee Protection Law. The promulgation and implementation of this law have made significant changes and changes to the original immigration law in many aspects. These modifications and changes have far-reaching significance and have a great impact on the lives, work, residence and other activities of plan immigrants, applicants, newly established immigrants, and even many old immigrants.
One of the major changes is the implementation of the permanent residents' residence obligations and the permanent residents' card system. Permanent Resident Card is commonly known as maple leaf card . This system refers to strengthening management of immigration status and immigration entry and exit issues. The provisions of permanent residents' residence obligations and maple leaf card system can be summarized simply as follows:
1. Every permanent resident must meet the residence requirements for every five-year period (the following situations are deemed to meet these residence requirements)
In each five-year period, the total number of 730 days actually lives in Canada;
accompany a spouse with Canadian citizenship overseas, or a child with parents with Canadian citizenship abroad;
is employed in a Canadian business abroad or performs official duties in Canada or a province;
is employed in a spouse with Canadian permanent resident status overseas, or a child with parents with Canadian permanent resident status abroad, and the spouse or parents are employed in a Canadian business full-time or performs official duties in Canada or a province.
2. There are two situations for checking residence requirements:
landed in Canadian for less than five years, will the residence requirements still be met within five years from the date of becoming a permanent resident;
landed in CCD for more than five years, will the residence requirements be met within five years before the date of acceptance of the inspection?
3. If it is found that the residence requirements are not met, immigration officials balance the decision whether to cancel their permanent resident status
based on the above provisions, as a management measure, as required by law, to receive a maple leaf card within the prescribed period in order to enter and exit Canada. At that time, those who hold permanent resident status must hold a maple leaf card before entering and leaving Canada.
From the above provisions, it can be seen that the provisions of the new law on residence requirements are looser in some aspects than those of the old law, but in many other aspects the threshold has been raised, especially for permanent residents who cannot meet the residence requirements, and therefore the possibility of losing their permanent resident status is much greater. The main reason is that the law does not give much room for debate or appeal.
