New immigrants with maple leaf cards do not live for the first three years, but only live for the second two years. Can they change their cards?

Canada Permanent Resident Card, commonly known as maple leaf card, is the identification document of Canadian permanent residents and also the document required for entry and exit. Whether you have lost your permanent resident status depends on whether you have fulfilled your residence obligations and lived for two years in five years as required by the Immigration Bureau, not on the expiration of your maple leaf card.

according to previous work experience, I remind you that when the maple leaf card is still valid for two to three years, the cardholder can consider changing the card at this time. This card replacement method is a relatively safe way to protect the maple leaf card, that is to say, if the maple leaf card is replaced at this time, because the validity of the maple leaf card is still more than two years, no matter how long the applicant has lived in Canada in the past two to three years, the applicant still has at least two years to live in Canada, which is enough to meet the legal requirements of the Immigration Bureau for fulfilling his residence obligations within five years. Therefore, for those permanent residents whose maple leaf cards are still valid for two to three years, and who may leave Canada for a long time in the next two years, it is very necessary to replace the new maple leaf cards before leaving Canada.