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Hello,
I am a PR holder since 2005 and living in the United States. I am planning to move to Canada permanently this year end so that I can maintain my 2/5 years of residency. I have a new job offer from a US company. The offer says I can reside anywhere(either in Canada or US) but have to travel 90% of the time to customer location within US.
So to maintain my PR, I am planning to move to Toronto with my family and I will be flying out of toronto every monday morning and be back in Toronto on Friday evening. The US company is ready to sponsor my H1B.
Since I live in Toronto and work for a company in US, i guess I have to pay some tax to US gov and some to Canadian gov. Also I have to file taxes in two countries.
My question is will this be considered legal and will it be adequeate to prove that I maintain the 2/5 years residency requirements...though I will be physically in Canada only 3 days a week ?
Please advice if I can take this job offer. Has anyone been in this situation ?
Any help would be appretiated.
Thanks.
-rick
[01-02-2007,14:18]
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rick |
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(in reply to: Live in Canada and work in United States)
AFAIK that should be fine. you are getting 3 days (not 4) out of 7. But if you have not been to Canada since 2005, you already used up your 1-2 years already (out of 5-year budget). do not forget that.
for pr status, it does not matter where you work. Actually, if it was a canadian company, you would count your days in US as well against pr/citizenship requirements.
-rookie
[01-02-2007,15:20]
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(in reply to: Live in Canada and work in United States)
Please consider that any type of "being physically outside Canada" does NOT count towards your time that you need to be in Canada in order to maintain your Canadian PR status.
As long as you are outside Canada, it doesn´t actually matter whether you are in China, or US, or any other country in the world for that matter. Outside Canada is ANY location outside Canada.
Working for a Canadian company abroad is an exception, but you do not qualify, since your company is a US company.
To be on the safe side, and without guessing, when you do the math about your PR requirements, do not take into account any time spend outside Canada.
Good Luck!
[01-02-2007,15:32]
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