Worked cases · The PR card’s 730
Can’t reach 730 days by your fifth PR anniversary: what happens
By this count, three years abroad in the first five leaves you 175 days short on 1 November 2027, your fifth anniversary, even if you never leave again — and staying, the count reaches 730 on 29 June 2028. Until then, you are still a permanent resident unless an official decision says otherwise.
Checked against the Government of Canada’s pages on 18 October 2026. Sources: Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, section 28, Understand permanent resident status, Guide 5445: applying for a permanent resident card.
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
176 days
in Canada since your PR date. 730 needed by 1 November 2027 · 175 days short.
Becoming a citizen
29 June 2029
By this count, you reach 1,095 days in Canada then — 985 days from today.
If nothing else changes, you have 555 by then — 175 days short.
More about these dates
By this count, you reach 1,095 days on 29 June 2029.
That is 985 days from today.
PR card: by this count you have 176 days since your PR date — 730 needed by 1 November 2027.
If nothing else changes, you have 555 by then — 175 days short.
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The days left
Every day, five years
29 Jun 2024 – 28 Jun 2029 · 1,826 days
Every day from 29 June 2024 to 28 June 2029. 1 trip taken, 1,271 days away in all. By this count, the 1,095 days are there on 29 June 2029. Today is 18 October 2026. Iran: 5 Jan 2023 to 30 Jun 2026, 1,271 days away.
Worked through
Say you became a PR on 1 November 2022, left on 5 January 2023 and came back on 30 June 2026: 1,271 days away. Even staying from your return, the five years from 1 November 2022 to 31 October 2027 can hold only 555 days in Canada, and the law asks that you will be able to reach 730 in those five years.
After the anniversary, the five years roll: each day, the window gains a day and loses its oldest. The first days to leave it are the weeks in Canada before you left, so the count stands still; then the trip’s days leave one by one and it rises a day at a time — reaching 730 on 29 June 2028.
If you have to apply for a card, or are examined at the border, before then: the PR card application has a section for humanitarian and compassionate grounds, which an officer can weigh against a shortfall.
What would change the answer
- Applying for a card on or after 29 June 2028, staying in Canada until then, the count is at 730.
- Days abroad with a Canadian-citizen spouse count: time abroad with a citizen spouse.
- A shorter trip, and the anniversary can still hold: a PR card expiring after a long trip.
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