kazbob

Evening All.

We are almost about to submit our Citizenship Application but I have a query regarding the residency calculator that you have to attach with the Application.

We landed as PR's in August 2009 but had to go back to the UK for my husband to finish his time in the military's; eventually coming back here to live in February 2012. In between this period we came over on various vacation's.

On the Residency calculator it asks you to put in the date you became PR and then the date you came to Canada to live - now if I put in the date's above it tells me that "The date you first came to Canada must be the same as or before the date you became PR".

So, should I be putting the same dates in each box, ie, 14 Feb 2012 - the day we moved here permanently, or, 1 Aug 2009?

I don't want this to be messed up. Has anyone else been in this situation before?

Thanks guys.

Karen

paw339

Hi Karen.

In our application we put the date we first came to live in Canada as the day we first became a PR even though we also returned home for 2 years before moving to Canada permanently. We applied 9 months ago still waiting for test.

BTJ

The reason this is here is for people who lived in Canada on work/study permits before they became PRs. Until the new rules come in they are able to count the days on work/study permits that they were in Canada as half days for the purposes of meeting the citizenship physical presence requirement.

As you weren't in Canada on a work or study permit beforehand I would agree to just make it the same day as you became a PR.

PMM

Hi

1. Actually under the present act time as a visitor prior to PR counts as half time for citizenship

kazbob

Thank you for your replies.

So just to clarify for my benefit - I should put the earlier date of August 2009 in both boxes and then account for our visit's to Canada and the reason for going back to the UK?

TIA

JamesM

Yes. Exactly.

jimmydean

Kaz

We did exactly the same as you are proposing....... We used our very first date we landed in Halifax and on our list of absences we including a very long one back to UK of several hundred days plus lots of others to the US.

They scrutinised our list of absences very closely at the interview and checked off each stamp date in our passport against each line on our absence record...... there were a few they couldn't find in our passports of course because we travelled to US twice within the same I94 waiver period.

Good luck with your application