Hello All


My currents status in Canada is Landed Immigrant and I just had my passport stamped with American Green Card. So I have a permanent residence in two countries.
What are the implications of having Green Card stamped on my status in Canada.?

I was in USA for 2 weeks.


After coming back here I found a canadian buziness man who is sending me to USA for work for a period of minimum three months. If I am working in USA for a canadian buziness man, getting paid in canadian dollars.

Will these days count towards calculation of physical prescence days present in Canada when I apply for Canadian Citizenship?

Green card won't have any effect on your Canadian PR.

Working for a Canadian company outside Canada only counts towards preserving your PR. It does not count towards citizenship.

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It is illegal to claim permenant residency in two different countries at the same time. The meaning of permenant resident is that you are ordinarily resident of that particular country. Permenant residence of two different countries at the same time is not possible as you cannot live in two different countries at the same time.

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You have raised a nice issue for discussion!

One can legally be citizen of two countries. No issues about that?

Rules in Canada allow you to be legally PR in two countries, for some time atleast. (2 yrs in 5 yrs rule)

How is that illegal? It maybe costly, paying taxes/filing returns in two places; but illegal? Not essentially.

There were many instances where US green card holders were denied entry into US as they were deemed non-residents by the entry officers once they found they were permenant resident of some other country.

Canada doesn't offer you to be a permenant resident of two countries. As I said earlier, having permenant residence status of a country means you are ordinarily resident in that country. It is perfectly legal to have dual citizenship because being a citizen one doesn't need to live in that country i.e. one can be non-resident citizen - pretty much like Non-Resident indians.

As for the 2 years out of 5 years rule, it is just a facility for people - you still have the burden to show ties to Canada when you enter Canada. There were (though rarely) people rejected entry into Canada as they had a pending Green card application in the US. Some immigration officers know the many in the US apply Canadian residency just as a back up measure and never really try to live in canada unless their Green card application fails in the US. This (Green Card shopping) is exactly what they want to prevent because Canada gives a person permanant residency not so that he can keep it as a backup plan in case he doesn't get US green card but to get skilled people into Canada who would work and contribute taxes to the Canadian economy.

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You are perfectly right in what you have said.

But for some time it is technically legal to be holding both PR and green-card. For example a green-card holder in US availing benefit of 2 year in 5 year rule of Canadian PR.

Of course that is not the aim of Canadian Immigration Policy.

Thanks for the details.

decide where you want to stay. therea are ppl who are looking for jobs here in canada and cant get one.