Worked cases · Time abroad that counts
Abroad with a Canadian-citizen spouse: do those days count for the 730?
By this count, yes — for the PR card. Days outside Canada accompanying a Canadian-citizen spouse or common-law partner count as days in Canada, so a PR since 1 September 2021 abroad with their spouse from 1 October 2022 to 1 March 2026 has 1,826 days in the five years before a renewal on 2 November 2026.
Checked against the Government of Canada’s pages on 18 October 2026. Sources: Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, section 28, Guide 5445: applying for a permanent resident card, Canadian citizenship: who can apply.
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. It can’t mark days abroad that count for the card, so it counts every such day as away, and its PR card figure is as things stand today; the answer above counts the case’s days on the dates it names. Change any date to make the count yours.
Keeping your PR status
580 days
in Canada in the last 5 years. 730 needed · 150 days short.
Becoming a citizen
28 February 2029
By this count, you reach 1,095 days in Canada then — 864 days from today.
150 days short.
More about these dates
By this count, you reach 1,095 days on 28 February 2029.
That is 864 days from today.
PR card: by this count you have 580 days in the last 5 years — 730 needed. It doesn’t hold.
150 days short.
Estimates. Confirm with IRCC’s physical presence calculator before you apply.
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The days left
Every day, five years
28 Feb 2024 – 27 Feb 2029 · 1,827 days
Every day from 28 February 2024 to 27 February 2029. 1 trip taken, 1,246 days away in all. By this count, the 1,095 days are there on 28 February 2029. Today is 18 October 2026. the United Kingdom: 1 Oct 2022 to 1 Mar 2026, 1,246 days away.
Worked through
The calculator on this page can’t mark days as accompanied, so it counts every day of the 1,246 as away and shows the stricter answer: 580 days in the five years from 2 November 2021, 150 short. With the days counted, the same window holds 1,826.
The renewal has to show it: the PR card guide asks for proof that the person you were with is a Canadian citizen, and that you are their spouse, partner or child — their passports for the five years, among them.
Citizenship counts these days as away, unless your spouse was a Crown servant posted abroad. By this count, with the time abroad counted as away, the 1,095 come on 28 February 2029.
What would change the answer
- With a spouse who is a permanent resident, not a citizen, the days count only if they work full time abroad for a Canadian business or public service and you are with them.
- Without a citizen spouse, the same trip falls short: renewing after three years abroad.
- Working abroad yourself: working abroad for a Canadian employer.
Read next
- The rule behind it: How long can a PR stay outside Canada?
- More cases like this: Time abroad that counts for the PR card, or every worked case
- Your own dates: the PR card calculator