Worked cases · The PR card’s 730
Renewing a PR card after three years abroad
By this count, a renewal on 2 November 2026 falls 106 days short of the 730. Say you became a permanent resident on 1 April 2018 and lived in the Philippines from 15 March 2022 to 30 June 2025: the five years before that renewal hold 624 days in Canada, and the card needs 730. Staying in Canada from then on, the count reaches 730 again on 30 June 2027.
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, Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, section 28.
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
624 days
in Canada in the last 5 years. 730 needed · 106 days short.
Becoming a citizen
29 June 2028
By this count, you reach 1,095 days in Canada then — 620 days from today.
106 days short.
More about these dates
By this count, you reach 1,095 days on 29 June 2028.
That is 620 days from today.
PR card: by this count you have 624 days in the last 5 years — 730 needed. It doesn’t hold.
106 days short.
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The days left
Every day, five years
29 Jun 2023 – 28 Jun 2028 · 1,827 days
Every day from 29 June 2023 to 28 June 2028. 1 trip taken, 1,202 days away in all. By this count, the 1,095 days are there on 29 June 2028. Today is 18 October 2026. the Philippines: 15 Mar 2022 to 30 Jun 2025, 1,202 days away.
Worked through
The window for a renewal is the five years before you apply: 2 November 2021 to 1 November 2026. The trip’s 1,202 full days away are all inside it.
Each day you stay adds a day in Canada, but for a while an older day in Canada also leaves the window, so the count stands still. Only once the window’s start moves into the trip does each day add one. That is why the 730 is back on 30 June 2027, not 106 days after 2 November 2026.
Short of 730, you are still a permanent resident: your status stays until an official decision is made. An officer can also weigh humanitarian and compassionate reasons for keeping it — the PR card application has a section for that request.
What would change the answer
- Applying on or after 30 June 2027, staying in Canada until then, the count is at 730.
- Two years away is a different answer: renewing a PR card after two years abroad, where the card holds.
- Days with a Canadian-citizen spouse, or working full time abroad for a Canadian business, may count: working abroad for a Canadian employer.
- Coming back by plane without a valid card takes a travel document first: PR card expired outside Canada.
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