Ref.: Canada Immigration Issues:
This is a very specific question for which I request an objective and
precise answer to consider duly answered.
Perhaps a Canadian researcher would be more suitable to know/find the
answer. Perhaps by calling the appropriate department at the
Immigration Authority in Canada one would have the question answered.
To better understand the question I will make please read my Immigration story:
1) I landed in Canada as a Permanent Resident together with my wife
in the beginning of 2002. (We are Argentinean Citizens)
2) After almost 01 year in Canada we decided to come back to Brazil
for family and professional reasons
3) Technically, in March of 2005, my 03 year ?permit to stay out of
Canada and still return as permanent resident? will expire.*
*Although curiously, my ?Permanent Resident ID card? expires only in
2007. (We all got the new immigrant ID security cards already before
leaving Canada)
The immigration rules say that: I can apply for Canadian citizenship
after 03 years living in Canada. As a legal Permanent Resident (my
current status), I?m able to stay out of Canada for 03 years, then
stay 01 year in Canada again, then 03 more years outside and so on.
As my permit to ?stay out of Canada for 03 years? will soon expire, I
am looking for a legal way to keep my ?Permanent Resident? status, for
a longer period, without having to go back and actually live in Canada
so soon.
I need more years before going back to Canada to stay indefinitely as I intend.
As for the immigration rules, at the 5th anniversary of your landing
an accounting ought to be done to see if you have stayed in Canada for
2 x 365 days to keep your status. The govt. does have ways to find out
if your have been out of the country.
So that, I found that perhaps the only possible way would be to: go
back to Canada this year and incorporate a company. Why am I saying
that? Because for the Immigration Authorities:
?You can still be outside of Canada but deemed as inside if you work
for a Canadian company, or a government entity of Canada or any
Province?
My plan is to incorporate in Canada, have a business address and bank
account there; as the president of my own company come back and live
in my native country from where I still can run my business which
would be totally online: E.g. translation, copywriting, copyediting,
editorial and marketing services.
In few years I would comply with the 3 years as a ?Permanent
Resident?, and would apply for the Canadian Citizenship. My residence
?status worries? would be done.
My QUESTION is:
Can I go forward with my plan?
Would I be absolutely compliant with the current Immigration law?
And have no problem to achieve my objective of keeping my Canadian
residence status towards Citizenship?
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PS>. Please do not send URLs of Government sites, Canadian
Immigrations sites and etc with general content. I already read them
all. I just need a straight forward, precise and objective answer
MANY THANKS. |
