Worked cases · The PR card’s 730
A year abroad before your fifth PR anniversary: does the 730 hold?
By this count, yes. A PR since 14 February 2023 who spends 1 July 2027 to 1 July 2028 in South Korea keeps the 730 on every day: the tightest is 1 July 2028, when the five years before it hold 1,418 days in Canada, 688 more than the 730 PR status needs.
Checked against the Government of Canada’s pages on 18 October 2026. Sources: Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, section 28, Understand permanent resident status.
This case in the calculator
The calculator opens on this case’s dates, on the PR card — unless you kept your own dates in this browser, which it opens on instead. Its PR card figure is the count as things stand today; the page counts the case on the dates it names. Change any date to make the count yours.
Keeping your PR status
1,298 days
in Canada in the last 5 years. 730 needed · it holds.
Becoming a citizen
You have your days.
By this count, you reached 1,095 days on 29 March 2026. Check IRCC’s calculator, then apply when you’re ready.
More about these dates
By this count, you reached 1,095 days on 29 March 2026.
The five years before today hold 1,298. The planned South Korea trip moves nothing.
PR card: by this count you have 1,298 days in the last 5 years — 730 needed. It holds.
Your five years since PR end on 14 February 2028. The planned South Korea 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
2 Jul 2023 – 1 Jul 2028 · 1,827 days
Every day from 2 July 2023 to 1 July 2028. 1 trip taken, 44 days away in all. 1 planned trip. By this count, the 1,095 days are there on 29 March 2026. Today is 18 October 2026. South Korea: 1 Jul 2024 to 15 Aug 2024, 44 days away. South Korea, planned: 1 Jul 2027 to 1 Jul 2028, 365 days away.
Worked through
The plan crosses your fifth anniversary, 14 February 2028. Before it, the law asks whether you will be able to reach 730 in the five years after you became a PR: with the plan, those five years hold 1,555 days.
After it, the five years roll, and each day’s window still holds part of the trip. The day you come back holds all 365 days of it, plus the 44 of the earlier trip — the tightest day, at 1,418.
A border officer can examine the obligation the day you land back, on the five years before that day: 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2028.
What would change the answer
- Staying longer takes a day off the count on the day you come back for each extra day away: try it in the calculator above.
- Already past the fifth anniversary, only the rolling window matters: which five years count after five years.
- A shorter stay, for comparison: six months abroad and the 730.
Read next
- The rule behind it: How long can a PR stay outside Canada?
- More cases like this: Keeping your PR: the 730 days, or every worked case
- Your own dates: the PR card calculator