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Travel history for your citizenship application: what to list
To apply for citizenship, you list every absence from Canada in the five years before the day you sign, whatever the reason, with exact dates. That includes same-day trips to the United States, travel for work, and trips from before you became a permanent resident that fall inside those five years.
Checked against IRCC’s pages on 17 October 2026. Sources: Physical presence calculator: frequently asked questions, Record your trips outside Canada (travel journal), CBSA: Travel History Report, Application for Canadian Citizenship – Adults (CIT 0002).
What to list
- Every absence in the five-year window, for any reason: holidays, family, work. IRCC names truck drivers and airline staff — their trips count too.
- Same-day trips, the United States included. They count as 0 days away, and you still list them.
- Absences from before you became a PR, when they fall inside the window.
- Exact dates, with no two trips overlapping: IRCC’s calculator refuses absences that overlap.
- Where you went and why, for each trip: the calculator for paper applications asks for both.
Finding dates you don’t remember
IRCC points to your passport and to records such as bank statements and travel itineraries. Its travel journal is a way to keep them as you go — the day you left and the day you came back, the countries, and why. It isn’t sent with your application.
The border’s own record
The Canada Border Services Agency keeps a record of your entries into Canada and your exits. For a citizenship application you don’t need to ask for it: IRCC can collect it on your behalf when it needs it. More in your CBSA travel history report.
Questions on the application that look like travel
- Address history. Every address inside and outside Canada in the five years, with no gaps — not hotels or places you stayed on holiday. An application with gaps here is returned as incomplete.
- Police certificates. One from each country other than Canada where you were for 183 days or more in a row in the past four years, since you turned 18.
- Status in other countries. Each country where you have held immigration, permanent resident or citizen status, what status it was, and its dates.
Put your trips in one list
Enter your trips to see what they do to your 1,095 days. It is an estimate, counted in your browser; IRCC’s calculator is the one your application uses.
Becoming a citizen
19 February 2027
By this count, you reach 1,095 days in Canada then — 124 days from today.
34 days later with the plan.
Keeping your PR status
858 days
in Canada in the last 5 years. 730 needed · it holds.
More about these dates
By this count, you reach 1,095 days on 25 March 2027.
That is 158 days from today. 113.5 of them are credit for days before PR. The planned Brazil trip moves it later by 34 days; without it, by this count, 19 February 2027.
PR card: by this count you have 858 days in the last 5 years — 730 needed. It holds.
Your five years since PR end on 15 April 2029. The planned Brazil trip keeps the 730.
Estimates. Confirm with IRCC’s physical presence calculator before you apply.
Keep counting with an account: these dates and trips go with you, and the count stays up to date.
This browser didn’t let the page keep your dates, so they can’t go with you. Make an account anyway and add them there.
These are example dates — replace them with yours.
The days left
Every day, five years
25 Mar 2022 – 24 Mar 2027 · 1,826 days
The five years start 25 Mar 2022, but nothing counts before 1 Sep 2023, so the calendar starts there. The window slides with the date.
Every day from 25 March 2022 to 24 March 2027. 3 trips taken, 58 days away in all. 1 planned trip. By this count, the 1,095 days are there on 25 March 2027. Without the plan, 19 February 2027. Today is 18 October 2026. Brazil: 20 Dec 2024 to 8 Jan 2025, 18 days away. Portugal: 1 Jul 2025 to 21 Jul 2025, 19 days away. Brazil: 19 Dec 2025 to 10 Jan 2026, 21 days away. Brazil, planned: 20 Jan 2027 to 24 Feb 2027, 34 days away.
The same count has a page of its own: the citizenship calculator.