Worked cases · The PR card’s 730

Leaving Canada for six months: will you keep your PR?

By this count, yes. A PR since 10 March 2021 who spends 1 May 2027 to 1 November 2027 in Colombia has, on the tightest day — 1 November 2027, the day of return — 1,616 days in Canada in the five years before it: 886 more than the 730 the status needs.

Checked against the Government of Canada’s pages on 18 October 2026. Sources: Understand permanent resident status, Application for Canadian Citizenship – Adults (CIT 0002), 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

1,799 days

in Canada in the last 5 years. 730 needed · it holds.

Becoming a citizen

You have your days.

By this count, you reached 1,095 days on 9 March 2024. Check IRCC’s calculator, then apply when you’re ready.

More about these dates

By this count, you reached 1,095 days on 9 March 2024.

The five years before today hold 1,799. The planned Colombia trip moves nothing.

PR card: by this count you have 1,799 days in the last 5 years — 730 needed. It holds.

The planned Colombia trip keeps the 730.

Estimates. Confirm with IRCC’s physical presence calculator before you apply.

These are example dates — replace them with yours.

I became a permanent resident on .

Every day, five years

2 Nov 2022 – 1 Nov 2027 · 1,826 days

Every day from 2 November 2022 to 1 November 2027. 1 trip taken, 27 days away in all. 1 planned trip. By this count, the 1,095 days are there on 9 March 2024. Today is 18 October 2026. Colombia: 1 Feb 2025 to 1 Mar 2025, 27 days away. Colombia, planned: 1 May 2027 to 1 Nov 2027, 183 days away.

Worked through

The plan is 183 full days away; with the earlier 27 days in Colombia, the window from 1 November 2022 to 31 October 2027 is missing both. Every later day is tighter or looser only as old days leave the window — and none of them is tighter than the day you come back.

For citizenship, this person reached 1,095 days in five years on 9 March 2024. Signing before the trip, the count holds; signing after it, count again, because the window then holds the trip.

One more thing a long stay changes: 183 days or more in a row in one country, in the four years before you apply for citizenship, means a police certificate from that country.

What would change the answer

A longer plan moves the tightest day to its own return, a day less in Canada for each extra day away: try it in the calculator above.
In your first five years the count runs to your fifth anniversary instead: a year abroad in your first five years.
Going with a Canadian-citizen spouse, those days count as days in Canada for the card: time abroad with a citizen spouse.