CanadaFann

Hi,

I appreciate it if anyone can answer my below question please:

My wife and I both became PRs at the same time but I was the principal applicant. We are now living outside Canada.

Now if I return to Canada ALONE in order to meet my residency requirement to keep my PR status, will my wife also keep her PR status automatically if she stays abroad? If not, then what happens to her PR status?

Many thanks in advance

Former Lancastrian

She also has to maintain her own PR status.
I suggest you read this link regarding PR status on how its maintained and what the exemptions are

https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ir.../enf23-eng.pdf

If she doesn't maintain her PR status then on returning to Canada she could be reported for failing to meet the residency obligation and be reported and issued with a removal order that can be appealed.

CanadaFann

Thanks for your reply

But if I return to keep my PR status and she stays abroad, based on what you say, she will not meet the residency requirements. Is there a way then for me to have her in Canada as my Dependant?

christmasoompa

You can sponsor her for PR.

But it’s an awful lot of hassle and cost, is there no way she can just go with you?

Former Lancastrian

No she is you wife so cant be classed as a dependent. She either comes back to Canada with you or runs the risk of losing her PR status.

Aviator

Could you find a new one?

CanadaFann

thank you all