Worked cases · Time before PR
Four years on a work permit before PR: how much counts?
By this count, 365 days, the most there is. Four years as a worker before a PR date of 4 January 2025 put the 1,095 days on 4 January 2027, 730 days after PR — the date two years of permits would give, because the credit stops at 365.
Checked against the Government of Canada’s pages on 18 October 2026. Sources: Canadian citizenship: who can apply.
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Becoming a citizen
4 January 2027
By this count, you reach 1,095 days in Canada then — 78 days from today.
Keeping your PR status
652 days
in Canada since your PR date. 730 needed by 4 January 2030 · it holds.
More about these dates
By this count, you reach 1,095 days on 4 January 2027.
That is 78 days from today. 365 of them are credit for days before PR.
PR card: by this count you have 652 days since your PR date — 730 needed by 4 January 2030.
If nothing else changes, you have 1,826 by then. It holds.
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The days left
Every day, five years
4 Jan 2022 – 3 Jan 2027 · 1,826 days
Every day from 4 January 2022 to 3 January 2027. 0 trips taken, 0 days away in all. By this count, the 1,095 days are there on 4 January 2027. Today is 18 October 2026.
Worked through
Of the 1,461 days from 4 January 2021 to 3 January 2025, only those inside the five years before you sign count: on 4 January 2027, the window starts 4 January 2022, so 1,096 of them. Half of those is more than the cap, so the credit is 365.
The rest has to be days as a PR: 730 of them, and the date can’t come sooner than that.
What would change the answer
- Two years before PR give the same credit, and so the same gap: two years as a student before PR.
- A year gives half of the cap: one year as a worker before PR.
- Time before PR that ended years ago may be outside the window altogether: studied in Canada years before PR.
Read next
- The rule behind it: Does time before PR count towards citizenship?
- More cases like this: Time in Canada before PR, or every worked case
- Your own dates: the citizenship calculator