A permanent resident can be ordered deported if they’re convicted of a serious crime. A crime is serious if either:
At an admissibility hearing, the Immigration Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board decides if a person is inadmissible to Canada. The Immigration Division decides this based on whether the person meets the legal requirements for the immigration status they want to get or keep.
An Immigration Division member looks at the evidence...
Permanent residents can lose their status if they do not meet the residency obligation. This means that they cannot spend too much time outside Canada. The general rule is that over a period of 5 years, permanent residents must be in Canada for at least 2 years. That’s the same as 730 days. The 730 days do not have to be one after the other....
After someone becomes a permanent resident, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada gives them a permanent resident card. The card proves that the person has permanent status in Canada and includes details like their name, photograph, and date of birth.
A permanent resident card usually expires in 5 years but can be renewed.
Permanent...
A conjugal partner is someone who you've had a conjugal or marriage-like relationship with for at least one year. It does not matter what their sex or gender is. You do not have to live together. For example, you might come from a country where your relationship is against the law.
But if you could have lived together and chose not to, it can be...
A common-law partner is someone who you’ve lived with, for at least one year, in a conjugal or marriage-like relationship. It does not matter what their sex or gender is.
Common-law also means a conjugal partner that you’ve lived with for less than a year if you could not live together because it was against the law, or because you’d be...
Non-binary is a general term that describes gender identities that are outside of the categories of man or woman.
Non-binary is also a term that someone may use to describe their own gender identity. For example, someone who identifies as non-binary may have a gender identity that is not, or not just, man or woman.
Transgender describes someone whose gender is not, or not just, the one they were assigned at birth.
Gender expression is how someone outwardly expresses and presents their gender. For example, people can do this through their name, pronouns, behaviour, and clothes.
Gender identity is a person's internal and individual experience of gender.