Change in the Canadian Permanent Residence law

Change in the Canadian Permanent Residence law?
Hi everyone, I am a Canadian and i am currently living in Qatar. My friend wants to become a Canadian so he is going to apply for Permanent Residence first. He told me that he is going to go to Canada every year for 3 months so that in 8 years, he can become a Canadian Permanent Resident. But isn't that wrong? Isn't he supposed to stay for 2 years continuously? Or has the law changed? If Possible please give a link to your information. Thanks :D
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1 :
Well that has never been the case with Canadian immigration. You need to spend atleast 3 out of 4 years in Canada to claim your citizenship.
2 :
No, it's not simply 2 continuous years. There's a complex rubric for applying for premanent residency. They factor in many things such as age, language proficiency, years working in Canada, relatives, type of college degree, history of full-time employment, etc. If he has about 10 years of full-time employment history (or equiv part-time experience), a bachelors or above, a high English profiency, and between the ages of 21-49 then he might stand a better chance. Odds are he is getting better advice about it than you if he is committed to some 8 year plan.
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...every year for 3 months so that in 8 years, he can become a Canadian Permanent Resident. NOONE can become a PR by spending 3 months every year in Canada - thats what visitors are allowed to do and their status will never change. Anyone wanting to become a PR, MUST be eligible to apply for PR status. This means having the right job!!! Isn't he supposed to stay for 2 years continuously? To keep the PR status you must live in Canada for 2 complete years (that's 24 months) out of every 5 years. To become a citizen you must stay in Canada for 3 years (36 months) before you can apply for citizenship.
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NO, there is no change in Canadian Law for this particular case; instead, you were simply mistaken. However, what you said your friend are going to do is wrong also: - To become Canadian PR, any amount of visit to Canada before that will not help at all. Not a tiny bit. If he is working or studying legally in Canada instead, then it may help. - AFTER become PR, then to keep that PR status (again: to keep it, not to get it), one of the requirement is that the PR accumulate days of physically present in Canada of at least 730 days (equivalent to 2 years). There is no requirement that these days are contiguous. There are few exceptions to this requirement, read below.