Prayer: What’s the prayer and fasting rule for someone living 9 years away from their watan, but certain they’ll return someday?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Prayer: What’s the prayer and fasting rule for someone living 9 years away from their watan, but certain they’ll return someday?

English:

Question #698:

What rule applies to the prayer and fasting of someone who has been living for a long time (nine years) in a place which is not his watan and is presently forbidden from returning to his watan, but is certain that he will return some day?

Answer #698:

In the given case, he is not ruled as a traveler and he should say full prayer and fast there.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Prayer