Do I surrender Canadian PR after obtaining US PR

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Received US PR card in May 2008 after almost a 6 year long journey.

During the long years of waiting first during backlog reduction years and then during retrogessed years had applied for and obtained Canadian PR card (which is such a easy and smooth process). I have used Canadian PR card 3 times to travel to Canada once on vacation and twice to travel to Toronto get the US H1-B visa validated in passport.

Now that I have obtained US PR what are my options to avoid any hassles in US, considering I have no intention of settling in Canada:

a) I surrender the Canadian PR card. If so, how do I do it.
b) Keep both and do nothing.

Thanks.
 
I do not have intention of applying for Canadian citizenship cause I have not stayed in Canada to meet the requirements. As I mentioned in my introduction, I have visited Canada 3 times and stayed no longer than 10 days in total in last 2 plus years since obtaining Canadian PR.
 
The OP has never lived in Canada long enough to fulfill citizenship requirements. All he/she needs to do is stay out for more than 3 years in a rolling 5 year window and his/her PR status will be automatically lost.

cafeconleche said:
Is it time for you to apply for Canadian citizenship? Why don't you do that and then come to the US?
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Triple Citizen said:
The OP has never lived in Canada long enough to fulfill citizenship requirements. All he/she needs to do is stay out for more than 3 years in a rolling 5 year window and his/her PR status will be automatically lost.
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But wouldn't it be better to voluntarily and officially surrender the status, rather than having the Canadian government cancel it, in order to facilitate potential nonimmigrant purposes in the future?

I don't know how the Canadian govt. sees it, but with the US green card if you voluntarily surrender the card you can get a nonimmigrant visa more easily than if they revoked your card for staying out too long.
 
Canada doesn't have the same "immigrant intent" rules as US. Nor does it base its taxation on LPR status.

Keep the Cdn PR card (and status) until it is no longer valid.
 
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