Worked cases · The PR card’s 730
Landed as a PR, then left: can you still make the 730?
By this count, yes. Land on 1 May 2024, leave on 20 May 2024, come back on 1 March 2026, and stay: the five years after you became a PR hold 1,177 days in Canada by 1 May 2029 — 447 more than the 730 a new PR must be able to reach.
Checked against the Government of Canada’s pages on 18 October 2026. Sources: Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, section 28, 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
251 days
in Canada since your PR date. 730 needed by 1 May 2029 · it holds.
Becoming a citizen
8 February 2029
By this count, you reach 1,095 days in Canada then — 844 days from today.
More about these dates
By this count, you reach 1,095 days on 8 February 2029.
That is 844 days from today.
PR card: by this count you have 251 days since your PR date — 730 needed by 1 May 2029.
If nothing else changes, you have 1,177 by then. It holds.
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The days left
Every day, five years
8 Feb 2024 – 7 Feb 2029 · 1,827 days
The five years start 8 Feb 2024, but nothing counts before 1 May 2024, so the calendar starts there. The window slides with the date.
Every day from 8 February 2024 to 7 February 2029. 1 trip taken, 649 days away in all. By this count, the 1,095 days are there on 8 February 2029. Today is 18 October 2026. China: 20 May 2024 to 1 Mar 2026, 649 days away.
Worked through
A “soft landing” — becoming a PR, then going back to wrap up a life elsewhere — is allowed for by the law: in your first five years the question is only whether you will be able to meet the 730 by the fifth anniversary. The 649 days in China come out of the 1 May 2024 to 30 April 2029 window, and everything after your return is in Canada.
Citizenship is slower. It needs 1,095 days in the five years before you sign, and the 649 days away count for nothing: by this count you reach 1,095 days on 8 February 2029, 1,744 days after you landed.
Landing day itself counts: you became a PR in Canada that day.
What would change the answer
- Another 447 days away before 1 May 2029 would leave exactly 730; a day more, and the projection falls short.
- Time in Canada before you landed — as a worker or student — brings the citizenship date closer, by half: two years as a student before PR.
- Leaving again before the anniversary? Count the plan first: a year abroad in your first five years.
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