What are the rights and obligations of a permanent resident of Canada?

 As permanent residents, you and your dependents have the right to live, study and work indefinitely in Canada. Your permanent resident status gives you the right to apply for Canadian citizenship, and to hold a Canadian passport, once you have met citizenship requirements. Meanwhile, as a permanent resident you are entitled to all social benefits accorded to Canadian citizens. You are obligated as a resident to pay Canadian income tax on your worldwide earnings. There are very few limitations imposed on you in Canada by virtue of your permanent resident status. You may be unable to vote in certain Canadian elections or ineligible for certain jobs requiring high-level security clearance. You may be deported if you or your dependents commit serious crimes while you are permanent residents. You may also be deported if you were issued a conditional immigrant visa and have failed to abide by the terms and conditions of that visa. Your permanent resident status is in effect until you become a Canadian citizen or until you abandon Canada as your place of permanent residence. Short trips outside Canada for business reasons will not normally affect your permanent resident status. However, if your absences are frequent and/or lengthy enough to indicate that you are living somewhere other than Canada, you may be deemed by law to have abandoned Canada and will lose your permanent resident status. Traveling to Canada to present your visas for landing and then returning to live in your home country (or elsewhere) indefinitely will, except in the few exceptional and specific circumstances permitted by law, result in loss of Canadian permanent resident status.