Is GuangDong Nortel a Canadian business regarding to the Permanent Residency Obligations? Anybody has experience of it?
Permanent Residency Obligations
From <http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/newcomer/res-oblig.html>
Here is what you must do to comply with your residency obligations.
You must accumulate two years of physical presence in Canada in every five-year period. You can also count Canadian residency days if you are outside Canada for an extended period of time for one of the following reasons:
You are accompanying your Canadian-citizen spouse or common-law partner.
You are a child accompanying a Canadian-citizen parent.
You are employed on a full-time basis by a Canadian business, the Public Service of Canada or the public service of a Canadian province.
You are accompanying your permanent resident spouse or common-law partner who is also outside Canada and who is employed on a full-time basis by a Canadian business, the Public Service of Canada or the public service of a Canadian province.
You are a child accompanying a permanent resident parent who is outside Canada and employed on a full-time basis by a Canadian business, the Public Service of Canada or the public service of a Canadian province.
Please note that you are complying with your residency obligations only if:
your accompanying permanent-resident spouse, common-law partner or parent is complying with their residency obligations; and
you ordinarily reside with your accompanying Canadian-citizen or permanent-resident spouse, common-law partner or parent.
A child is someone under the age of 22 who has never been married or in a common-law relationship.
Here is the definition:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/newcomer/cdnbusiness.html
What is a Canadian Business?
Canadian Business
Only some businesses qualify as a Canadian business for the purpose of satisfying your residency obligations. To qualify as a Canadian business, the business must fulfil one of these three definitions:
The business is incorporated under Canadian or provincial laws and has an ongoing operation in Canada.
The business is an enterprise, other than a corporation described above, that has an ongoing operation in Canada and satisfies the following conditions:
It is capable of generating revenue and is carried on in anticipation of profit; and
Canadian citizens, permanent residents or Canadian businesses as defined above hold a majority of voting or ownership interests.
The business is an organization or enterprise created by the laws of Canada or by the laws of a province of Canada.
Excluded businesses:
An enterprise, corporation or organization is not a Canadian business if it exists primarily to allow permanent residents to comply with their residency obligations during a stay outside Canada.
Qualifying Employment outside Canada
The term “employed on a full-time basis by a Canadian business or in the public service of Canada” means:
you are an employee of, or under contract to provide services to, either a Canadian business, the public service of Canada or the public service of a Canadian province; and
you are assigned as a term of your employment or contract on a full-time basis to either:
a position outside Canada;
an affiliated enterprise outside Canada; or
a client of the Canadian business or the public service outside Canada
Permanent Residency Obligations
From <http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/newcomer/res-oblig.html>
Here is what you must do to comply with your residency obligations.
You must accumulate two years of physical presence in Canada in every five-year period. You can also count Canadian residency days if you are outside Canada for an extended period of time for one of the following reasons:
You are accompanying your Canadian-citizen spouse or common-law partner.
You are a child accompanying a Canadian-citizen parent.
You are employed on a full-time basis by a Canadian business, the Public Service of Canada or the public service of a Canadian province.
You are accompanying your permanent resident spouse or common-law partner who is also outside Canada and who is employed on a full-time basis by a Canadian business, the Public Service of Canada or the public service of a Canadian province.
You are a child accompanying a permanent resident parent who is outside Canada and employed on a full-time basis by a Canadian business, the Public Service of Canada or the public service of a Canadian province.
Please note that you are complying with your residency obligations only if:
your accompanying permanent-resident spouse, common-law partner or parent is complying with their residency obligations; and
you ordinarily reside with your accompanying Canadian-citizen or permanent-resident spouse, common-law partner or parent.
A child is someone under the age of 22 who has never been married or in a common-law relationship.
Here is the definition:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/newcomer/cdnbusiness.html
What is a Canadian Business?
Canadian Business
Only some businesses qualify as a Canadian business for the purpose of satisfying your residency obligations. To qualify as a Canadian business, the business must fulfil one of these three definitions:
The business is incorporated under Canadian or provincial laws and has an ongoing operation in Canada.
The business is an enterprise, other than a corporation described above, that has an ongoing operation in Canada and satisfies the following conditions:
It is capable of generating revenue and is carried on in anticipation of profit; and
Canadian citizens, permanent residents or Canadian businesses as defined above hold a majority of voting or ownership interests.
The business is an organization or enterprise created by the laws of Canada or by the laws of a province of Canada.
Excluded businesses:
An enterprise, corporation or organization is not a Canadian business if it exists primarily to allow permanent residents to comply with their residency obligations during a stay outside Canada.
Qualifying Employment outside Canada
The term “employed on a full-time basis by a Canadian business or in the public service of Canada” means:
you are an employee of, or under contract to provide services to, either a Canadian business, the public service of Canada or the public service of a Canadian province; and
you are assigned as a term of your employment or contract on a full-time basis to either:
a position outside Canada;
an affiliated enterprise outside Canada; or
a client of the Canadian business or the public service outside Canada
