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landed immigrant

The definition of a landed immigrant is a person who has changed their permanent residence to a Canadian state where they have residency rights even though they don't have Canadian citizenship rights.

(noun)

An example of a landed immigrant is a U.S. citizen who has a permanent residence in Canada.

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See landed immigrant in Webster's New World College Dictionary

Cdn. an immigrant who has been admitted to Canada as a permanent resident
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