Cheng famously renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2004, so he could run for a Legislative Council seat, but he resettled in Vancouver eight months ago.
He wanted to be with his ailing mother, aged in her 90s, who was living here. One month later, she passed away. “But I’m going to stay. I’m here for good,” he says, adding of his ties to Hong Kong that “when you sell your son, don’t touch his head. Just let him go.”
How did he get / is he going to get PR status in Canada?
He would not have met the legislative standard to be sponsored as a child by his 90-yr old mother
The Federal government's investor program has been cancelled.
He doesn't meet any BC Provincial Nomination Program criteria
He couldn't be sponsored by his spouse (even if she was Canadian) because she would need to have residency here and insufficient time has passed to show that she is a Canadian spouse who has become re-established in Canada (legal jurisprudence on such matters say as much)
He doesn't qualify for H&C grounds (Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds).
He doesn't qualify for any of the economic categories because of his age.
The only things I can think of are (1) sponsorship by a child who may have never left Canada, or (2) the Quebec Investor Immigration Program (but that would raise many other issues if he signed their declaration to live in Quebec, and under Quebec's new rules, in order to qualify, he would not be allowed to have children or a spouse living elsewhere in Canada).
Does anyone know?