Philippine Asian News Today Vol 18 No 18 | Page 17

September 16 - 30, 2016

PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY

The Notary
Corner

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Determine your eligibility – Citizenship

status.
You do not need
Immigration Consultant, Notary
Public, Mediation / Arbitrator
to have a PR card to
apply for citizenship.
To be eligible to become
If
you
have
a PR card, but it is
a Canadian citizen, you must
expired,
you
can still apply for
meet the conditions in all these
citizenship.
areas:
Time you have lived in
Age
Canada
You must be at least 18
You must have been
years old to apply.
physically
present in Canada
To apply for citizenship for a
as
a
permanent
resident for at
child under 18:
least
1,460
days
during the six
- you must be the child’s
years
immediately
before the
parent, adoptive parent or legal
date
of
your
application.
You
guardian,
must
also
be
physically
present
- the child must be a
for at least 183 days during
permanent resident, and
- one parent must be a each of four calendar years that
Canadian citizen or apply to are fully or partially within the
become a citizen at the same six years immediately before
time (this also applies to the date of application. These
requirements do not apply to
adoptive parents).
children under 18.
Permanent resident status
Exceptions
to
these
You must have permanent
requirements
apply
for
certain
resident (PR) status in Canada,
have no unfulfilled conditions Crown servants and certain
related to that status, and family members of Crown
your PR status must not be in servants.
When calculating time you
question. This means you must
have
lived in Canada, you can
not:
only
count
time spent after you
- be under review for
became
a
permanent resident
immigration or fraud reasons,
of
Canada.
or
Use our online tool to find
- be under a removal
out
if
you have lived in Canada
order (an order from Canadian
long
enough
to apply