Worked cases · Time before PR
One year as a worker before PR: how much sooner is citizenship?
By this count, 182 days sooner. A year in Canada as a worker before PR — 365 days — counts half: 182.5 days. With a PR date of 15 September 2025, the 1,095 come on 16 March 2028 instead of 14 September 2028.
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
16 March 2028
By this count, you reach 1,095 days in Canada then — 515 days from today.
Keeping your PR status
398 days
in Canada since your PR date. 730 needed by 15 September 2030 · it holds.
More about these dates
By this count, you reach 1,095 days on 16 March 2028.
That is 515 days from today. 182.5 of them are credit for days before PR.
PR card: by this count you have 398 days since your PR date — 730 needed by 15 September 2030.
If nothing else changes, you have 1,826 by then. It holds.
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The days left
Every day, five years
16 Mar 2023 – 15 Mar 2028 · 1,827 days
The five years start 16 Mar 2023, but nothing counts before 15 Sep 2024, so the calendar starts there. The window slides with the date.
Every day from 16 March 2023 to 15 March 2028. 0 trips taken, 0 days away in all. By this count, the 1,095 days are there on 16 March 2028. Today is 18 October 2026.
Worked through
The credit, 182.5, ends in a half, so the count never lands on 1,095 exactly: half a day short is short, and the date is the first one with 913 PR days — 16 March 2028, when the count is 1,095.5.
The whole year is inside the window, 16 March 2023 to 15 March 2028, so every day of it counts.
What would change the answer
- Two years before PR is the cap, and the date then is 730 days after PR: two years as a student before PR.
- Four years is no better than two: four years on a work permit before PR.
- Days away during that year cost half a day each: trips abroad 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