Documents required for PR Renewal - Citizen Spouse

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Hi all,

Hope you are well. I need some help / advice with the list of documents that I’d need to submit with my PR renewal application.

My Story : I became a Permanent resident in 2010 (I came to Canada for a few days to collect my PR) and then went back to the UK where I worked / resided with my Canadian citizen wife.

Fast forward that to almost five years, we moved to Canada this past Feburary when I secured a job here.

Now my PR is about to expire in early November.

I filled out and paid for the online renewal form and now my predicament is that the documents I have been asked to submit as a proof of my residence in Canada include 1) Income Tax assessment, or 2) Immigration entry and exit documents (Record of movement) or 3) University transcript etc.

The thing is, since I moved to Canada only in Feb of this year, so I don’t have any of these and I never went to University here to begin with.

I spoke to a lawyer and he said I should be sending through my proof of residence with the Canadian spouse from the last five years (tax documents, etc.) from the UK since I resided in the UK for that time.

I am not sure what documents to submit and I don’t want to go down the immigration lawyer route as I am on a budget here.

I would really appreciate your help with some direction (ideally if you have been in a similar situation) or if you could point me in the right direction as to what documents to submit, that would be really appreciated.

Many thanks for your help in advance.

[SettlementOrgMod]

Hello,

Thank you for sharing your situation and question with us.

We can appreciate that you would be concerned about this and getting some definitive information.

You can find some helpful information in the CIC ENF 23 Loss of permanent resident status Operations Manual.

Here is an excerpt,

Onus rests with the permanent resident

As indicated throughout this manual chapter, the onus rests with the permanent resident to provide the necessary information and evidence to satisfy an officer that they are in compliance with the legislation. An officer, when deciding whether a permanent resident complies with A28(2)(a)(iv), may address, inter alia, the following factors:

-whether the permanent resident is a bona fide spouse or common-law partner or child of the person they are accompanying abroad;

• whether the permanent resident normally resides with the person they are accompanying abroad;
• whether the person the permanent resident is accompanying is a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada; and
• if the person concerned is accompanying a permanent resident, whether that permanent resident is in compliance with their own residency obligation.

Documentation and information presented by a permanent resident that may be considered by an officer may include, inter alia: a marriage license; a child’s birth certificate or baptismal document; adoption or guardianship documents; school and/or employment records; passport and/or other travel documents or documentation; employment letters; such other documentation from a permanent resident being accompanied – as considered necessary by an officer - to confirm that the permanent resident being accompanied is in compliance with their own residency obligation.

Note: The above list is not meant to be all encompassing nor exhaustive. Officers may ask permanent residents to provide such documentation, as an officer deems necessary in the circumstances, to allow for a determination to be made with respect to the residency obligation provision of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

You may also want to contact the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) Call Centre directly for some additional information regarding what your options are.

I hope this information is helpful. Please let us know if you have further questions and if there is any follow up to your question/situation.

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Anna
Settlement.Org Content and Information/Referral Specialist, CIRS
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