Time spent outside Canada
You may count days you spent outside Canada as days where you meet the residency obligation in these cases:
OPTION 1. Accompanying a Canadian citizen outside Canada
You may count each day you accompanied a Canadian citizen outside Canada as long as this person is your spouse, common-law partner or parent (if you are a child under 19 years of age).
Proof needed
You must provide supporting documents to prove that:
The person you are accompanying is a Canadian citizen; and
you are the spouse, common-law partner or child of that person.
Supporting documents may include:
Mandatory:
all passports or other travel documents that the person you are accompanying used in the five (5) years before the application;
documents showing the citizenship of the person you are accompanying, including the date the person became a Canadian citizen;
proof of the residential addresses of the person you are accompanying for the five (5) years before the application;
marriage licence or proof of common-law partnership (if you are accompanying a spouse or common-law partner);
child’s birth certificate, baptismal document, or adoption or legal guardianship document (if you are accompanying a parent);
You may also include:
Canadian Income Tax Notice of Assessment (NOA) for the past two (2) years