PR card residency obligation calculator: your 730 days
Keeping your permanent residence takes 730 days in Canada in every five years. IRCC’s own calculator counts days for citizenship only, so this one counts the 730: add your PR date and your trips outside Canada, and see where you stand — and when you reach the 1,095 days for citizenship too. In your browser, free, with no account.
Keeping your PR status
858 days
in Canada in the last 5 years. 730 needed · it holds.
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.
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.
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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.
How the 730 days are counted
You need 730 days in Canada in every five-year period. They don’t have to be in a row.
If you’ve been a permanent resident for less than five years, what counts is whether you can still reach 730 days in the five years after the day you became one. From five years on, it is the 730 days in the five years just before an officer examines it — when you renew your card, for one. The window moves with the date.
The count above follows that rule, from your PR date and your trips.
Days abroad that still count
Some days outside Canada count toward the 730 as if you were here:
- living with your spouse or common-law partner who is a Canadian citizen — or, for a child, with a parent who is one;
- assigned full-time, as a term of your job or contract, to a position, an affiliated business or a client outside Canada by a Canadian business or the federal or a provincial public service (a business that serves mainly to let someone keep PR while living abroad doesn’t count);
- living with your spouse or common-law partner who is a permanent resident assigned abroad that way — or, for a child, with a parent who is one.
This calculator counts days in Canada only. If some of your days abroad were of these kinds, it shows fewer days than the law counts: keep the proof of them for your application.
Short of 730 days? An officer can still decide that humanitarian and compassionate reasons, including the best interests of a child affected, justify keeping your status. And you stay a permanent resident until an official decision is made on your status, even if you don’t meet the obligation — an expired card doesn’t end it.
Renewing your card: IMM 5444
You renew a PR card with the Application for a Permanent Resident Card or Permanent Resident Travel Document (IMM 5444), online through the Permanent Residence Portal; paper is for people who can’t apply online. The form asks for every absence from Canada in the past five years, or since you became a permanent resident if that is less — the same trips you add here.
Your current card stops being valid 60 days after the new one is issued.
Card expired while you’re outside Canada? The travel document and your 730 days.
Counting for citizenship instead
Becoming a citizen takes 1,095 days in the five years before you sign. The citizenship calculator opens on that date; the guides answer the questions around it.
Checked against these pages on 18 October 2026: Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, section 28, Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations, section 61, Guide 5445: applying for a permanent resident card, Understand permanent resident status.