How can I extend/retain my PR status after 3 year period??
All Immigration experts and Gurus,
I am need of your advise to know that if there is a way to extend/retain my PR status one more year after 3 years.
I have landed in Canada in the month of June 2005 and stayed there for a week after getting my PR card and left for USA.
Now I am living in US on H1B visa and awaiting my GC which seems to never come.
My 3 year period ends in June 2008 and I ' go out of status as I am out of the country for 3 years.
I need atleast one more year to come to Canada and settle there permanently as it takes some time for me to wind up every thing here in USA and fly to Canada some time in the month of June 2009 forever.
My question is whether is there any way to extend or retain my PR status in canada by making a written request/application to extend my PR status for one more year until June 2009.
Please advise.
TIA,
MS.
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Originally posted by maplestar
Here are my own reasons that I have but not sure if they are valid or not though.
1) My ongoing project responsibilities 'll end in 2008.
2) My kids education is halfway through.
3) Need to sell my house. (US housing market is vey bad now ,can't even think of selling it now)
4) Wind up all my financial obligations before I move to Canada permanently.
5) Finding a right place to live in Canada which suits to our health and skills.
Any help?
MS.

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maplestar,
I am not your Guruth, and you don't followeth. I am not an immigration consultant either. What I am going to tell you could be construed as illegal, immoral, and fattening. I don't have a bullet proof armour so I might go down with you. Here is my two bits and then two more bits.

You landed here in June of 2005 and stayed for a week. You have five years before the renewal of your PR card, that is the time when it comes up. You just have to be in Canada, or your dependants, at the least, for that many number of days, which is 733. You all sail clear if these many number of days are under all of your belts, just for the renewal. No questions asked if you do that. Please make sure that atleast one of you do have that.
"A kan see clearly now that rain is gone, all..........." Lordie lordie... yes my solar calculator is working now.
The schools close in May of each year over there.?? If so, get back here with the family NOW or at the least by May of 2008.
You do all of the things that you say you want to do and clear out of the USA lock, stock and barrel any time after the month of MAY 2008, all by your self.
You use the house till it is sold or do the correct thing when the right time comes. You know the decision you made when you bought the house and now know in hind sight it was not that bright a move. But you got your interest deductions and also enjoyed the use of it, do so till it is liquidated.
Wind up all your financial affairs starting today, see what is left to do when the actual time arrives. Either cut bait and bite the bullet or come up smelling rosy, if it bounces back and turns in your favour. You won't loose much if you trust my muddy crystal ball, from todays position. Hope you are in a good neighborhood.
As regards item number 5, you know more about it than I can shake a stick at.

All of what ever I am saying here is between me you and the lamp post. Don't write to me and thank, I got it before I started on it. Now I sincerely hope that this sinks in, if it does not, then, print it and take it and then read the same sitting on the throne. Boy, are you in luck!!


Freddie.

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Originally posted by GlobalIndian

Well what I said applies to people doing an honest living, more so than the men outside the law. Of course given the opportunity, the law-abiding citizen maybe tempted to try his/her luck to accelerate wealth accumulation using means outside the law as well. Can't blame for that until they are caught. Then it's all about gallows. LOL

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Of course, what Maplestar is doing is completely legal - right? Rape and pillage, my friends - but do not get caught - for then you are a barbarian.

Lest you think I am being unduly harsh to Maplestar, he has a choice. it is greed that is getting the better of his judgement. At best this was just the way the dice rolled. At worst, he used Canada and our generosity like a stepping stone. The truth, suspect, i is somewhere in-between.

Finally, I feel for the folks Maplestar displaced to get access to Canada. Maplestar took the spot in the lifeboat that could have changed someone's life.

BV

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Originally posted by Big Vee

Of course, what Maplestar is doing is completely legal - right? Rape and pillage, my friends - but do not get caught - for then you are a barbarian.

Lest you think I am being unduly harsh to Maplestar, he has a choice. it is greed that is getting the better of his judgement. At best this was just the way the dice rolled. At worst, he used Canada and our generosity like a stepping stone. The truth, suspect, i is somewhere in-between.

Finally, I feel for the folks Maplestar displaced to get access to Canada. Maplestar took the spot in the lifeboat that could have changed someone's life.

BV

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I did not quite understand the first few lines of the post - Rape and pillage?? Nobody is doing anything comparable to the rape and pillage here.

And whose generosity are you talking about? Nobody is generous, this is just a need based immigration offered by Canada. (This is assuming that the applicant is not a refugee. If yes, then talk about the generosity). Everybody wants to have more options in their lives, whether they use all of them or not. And that's what the OP did.