Worked cases · The PR card’s 730
Renewing a PR card after two years abroad
By this count, two years abroad still leaves the 730 days a PR card needs. Say you became a permanent resident on 10 June 2019, lived in India from 1 September 2023 to 5 September 2025, and apply to renew on 2 November 2026: the five years before that day hold 1,092 days in Canada, 362 more than the 730 in every five-year period.
Checked against the Government of Canada’s pages on 18 October 2026. Sources: Understand permanent resident status, Guide 5445: applying for a permanent resident card, Physical presence calculator: frequently asked questions, 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. 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
1,092 days
in Canada in the last 5 years. 730 needed · it holds.
Becoming a citizen
4 September 2028
By this count, you reach 1,095 days in Canada then — 687 days from today.
More about these dates
By this count, you reach 1,095 days on 4 September 2028.
That is 687 days from today.
PR card: by this count you have 1,092 days in the last 5 years — 730 needed. It holds.
Estimates. Confirm with IRCC’s physical presence calculator before you apply.
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The days left
Every day, five years
4 Sep 2023 – 3 Sep 2028 · 1,827 days
Every day from 4 September 2023 to 3 September 2028. 1 trip taken, 734 days away in all. By this count, the 1,095 days are there on 4 September 2028. Today is 18 October 2026. India: 1 Sep 2023 to 5 Sep 2025, 734 days away.
Worked through
For a renewal, the five years are the five years before you apply: here 2 November 2021 to 1 November 2026. The trip took 734 full days out of them: this count takes the day you left and the day you came back as days in Canada, as IRCC’s citizenship calculator does.
What is left is 1,092 days in Canada. The 730 don’t have to be in a row, and nothing before 2 November 2021 counts for or against you.
The same five years are 1,092 days towards citizenship, 3 short of the 1,095 in the five years before you sign — so the card holds while citizenship waits. The two counts ask for different numbers of the same days.
What would change the answer
- Renewing later keeps the 362 days to spare as long as you stay: staying in Canada never lowers the count, since each day here adds one while an older day leaves the window.
- Three years away instead of two is a different answer: renewing a PR card after three years abroad.
- Abroad with a Canadian-citizen spouse, those days can count as days in Canada: time abroad with a citizen spouse.
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