How to get a maple leaf card after graduation when applying for a Canadian university? Do I need to take the exam?

The first condition for applying for a Canadian Maple Leaf Card is that the applicant must be a permanent resident of Canada. If you want to become a permanent resident of Canada, you must first apply for immigration to Canada.

When new immigrants arrive in Canada, maple leaf cards will be mailed to them later. When you enter the customs, the immigration officer will verify your personal data, including photos, and then send you the maple leaf card within the next three weeks. When new permanent residents arrive in Canada for the first time, they need to declare their new address if they fail to provide their mailing address in Canada when they enter the customs, or if they want to change their address. If the mailing address of the immigration office cannot be provided within 180 days after entry, you must apply for a permanent resident card again and pay the relevant fees. If you don't receive the maple leaf card within 30 days after reporting the address, please inform the Immigration Bureau.

The application for Maple Leaf Card must be made in Canada. The applicant must provide a Canadian citizen living in Canada as a guarantor and have known the applicant for more than two years. In addition, whether applying for the first time or applying again, applicants need to pass the "residence test".

Provisions on the obligations of permanent residents in Canada:

To apply for a Canadian maple leaf card, you must abide by the obligation of residence. If you have been a permanent resident for five years or more, you must have lived in China for more than 730 days in the past five years. Those who have become permanent residents for less than five years must meet the requirement of living for at least 730 days within five years.

Whether you apply for a maple leaf card for the first time or for a second time after the expiration of five years, you must pass the residence test. Anyone who holds permanent residence status in Canada must fulfill the obligation of residence for more than 730 days in any five-year period. If he has not lived for more than 730 days in any five years after landing, he can be regarded as meeting the residence requirements under the following five circumstances, and the time spent living abroad is regarded as fulfilling the residence obligation:

1. Accompany Canadian citizens abroad:

Living outside Canada with family members holding Canadian citizenship;

Every day spent abroad with a Canadian citizen of your spouse, cohabiting partner or parents (if you are a child under 22) can be counted.

2. Overseas employment:

Full-time employees of Canadian enterprises stationed overseas, or full-time Canadian official civil servants stationed overseas.

For workers outside Canada, every day of working outside Canada can be counted. You must be a full-time employee of a Canadian company or an overseas official of Canada, and meet the following conditions:

(1) Working outside Canada

(2) affiliated enterprises outside Canada

(3) Canadian enterprises or customers outside the official territory of Canada.

3. Accompany Canadian permanent residents abroad.

Every day you accompany a Canadian permanent resident abroad can be counted. This permanent resident must be your spouse, cohabiting partner or parents (if you are a child under the age of 22), and the spouse of the permanent resident meets the overseas employment requirements in the above 2, that is, the family member with permanent residency is stationed overseas as a full-time employee by a Canadian enterprise or as an official Canadian official, in which case he stays abroad with his family members.

4. Hold a valid re-entry permit.

Every day when a valid re-entry permit holder is abroad can be counted.

5. Humanitarian reasons

If the residence requirements cannot be met, any irresistible humanitarian factors can still be taken into consideration whether to retain permanent resident status, and the Immigration Bureau will inform whether additional review is needed.