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How many days can you be outside Canada and still have 1,095?
By this count, 731 days in the five years before you sign, if you were a permanent resident for all of them: the five years have 1,826 days, and 1,095 must be days in Canada. A PR since 1 April 2021 signing on 2 November 2026, with three trips to Egypt behind them, has used 252: the count that day is 1,574, 479 over.
Checked against the Government of Canada’s pages on 18 October 2026. Sources: Canadian citizenship: who can apply, Physical presence calculator: frequently asked questions.
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Becoming a citizen
You have your days.
By this count, you reached 1,095 days on 8 September 2024. Check IRCC’s calculator, then apply when you’re ready.
Keeping your PR status
1,574 days
in Canada in the last 5 years. 730 needed · it holds.
More about these dates
By this count, you reached 1,095 days on 8 September 2024.
The five years before today hold 1,574.
PR card: by this count you have 1,574 days in the last 5 years — 730 needed. It holds.
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The days left
Every day, five years
19 Oct 2021 – 18 Oct 2026 · 1,826 days
Every day from 19 October 2021 to 18 October 2026. 3 trips taken, 252 days away in all. By this count, the 1,095 days are there on 8 September 2024. Today is 18 October 2026. Egypt: 1 Jun 2022 to 31 Aug 2022, 90 days away. Egypt: 10 Dec 2023 to 20 Feb 2024, 71 days away. Egypt: 15 Jun 2025 to 15 Sep 2025, 91 days away.
Worked through
The window for 2 November 2026 is 2 November 2021 to 1 November 2026. The trips were 90, 71, 91 days away — not counting the days you left and came back — so the five years hold 1,574 days in Canada.
Days away don’t have to be spread out: one long trip or many short ones cost the same. But only the window counts, so the room is 731 days — one more when two leap days fall inside — in every five years you might sign on, not in your life as a PR.
What would change the answer
- As a PR for less than five years, the room is smaller: days before PR count half, or not at all — one year as a worker before PR.
- The PR card asks only 730 of the same five years: your first five years as a PR.
Read next
- The rule behind it: How IRCC counts your days: departures, returns and day trips
- More cases like this: Trips and your citizenship date, or every worked case
- Your own dates: the citizenship calculator