Nothing for a Retiree, and the List Is the Proof
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Germany on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
107 exceptions recorded across 42 countries · none match Germany to Canada · Residency as a retiree
Canada has no retirement visa. The eleven economic classes in subsection 70(2) of the Regulations are all built on economic establishment - work, a nomination, experience, a trade, a business - and the start-up business class says so in terms, prescribing a class of persons who may become permanent residents on the basis of their ability to become economically established in Canada. A person who has stopped working has nothing to establish. The routes that remain for an older applicant are the family class as a sponsored parent or grandparent, and nothing else in the list.
At a glance
- A retirement class
- None in subsection 70(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations
Every economic class in that subsection is named after an activity.
- What the economic classes are built on
- The ability to become economically established in Canada
- What is left
- Sponsorship as a parent or grandparent under section 117 of the Regulations
Paragraphs 117(1)(c) and (d) of the Regulations.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Germany
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«70 (1) An officer shall issue a permanent resident visa to a foreign national if, following an examination, it is established that - (a) the foreign national has applied in accordance with these Regulations for a permanent resident visa as a member of a class referred to in subsection (2); - (b) the foreign national is coming to Canada to establish permanent residence; - (c) the foreign national is a member of that class; - (d) the foreign national meets the selection criteria and other requirements applicable to that class; and - (e) the foreign national and their family members, whether accompanying or not, are not inadmissible. - Marginal note: Classes (2) The classes are - (a) the family class; - (b) the economic class, consisting of the federal skilled worker class, the Quebec skilled worker class, the provincial nominee class, the Canadian experience class, the federal skilled trades class, the Atlantic immigration class, the Quebec investor class, the Quebec entrepreneur class, the start-up business class, the self-employed persons class and the Quebec self-employed persons class; and - (c) the Convention refugees abroad class and the country of asylum class.»Read for what is not in it. Every economic class in the subsection is named after an activity.
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Practical notes
A visitor may stay for the period an officer authorises and apply to extend it. That is a stay, not a residence, and it carries none of the things people retire abroad for.
- consolidatesImmigration and Refugee Protection Regulations
Justice Laws Website, Department of Justice Canada
About this source
Canada's consolidated federal statutes and regulations, served whole as plain HTML at a stable address built from the Act's chapter or the regulation's registration number. Each consolidation states the date it is current to and the last amendment applied.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are official under the Legislation Revision and Consolidation Act, but the site itself warns that where a consolidation and the original statute differ, the original prevails. The date a page is current to is printed in a side panel our capture does not carry, so a stored reading here shows the text without the line that dates it. Immigration practice in Canada also sits largely in ministerial instructions and programme delivery guidance, which are not law and are not published here, and Quebec selects its own immigrants under an accord this site does not carry.
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