Worked cases · Trips

You have your 1,095 days: can you travel before you apply?

By this count, yes, and here the days are still there after it. A PR since 1 March 2022 who reached 1,095 days on 28 March 2025 and spends 3 May 2027 to 30 November 2027 in Peru has 1,588 days in the five years before 1 December 2027, the day after coming back — 493 more than the 1,095.

Checked against the Government of Canada’s pages on 18 October 2026. Sources: Canadian citizenship: who can apply, Canadian citizenship: after you apply.

This case in the calculator

The calculator opens on this case’s dates, its answer already counted — unless you kept your own dates in this browser, which it opens on instead. Change any date to make the count yours.

Becoming a citizen

You have your days.

By this count, you reached 1,095 days on 28 March 2025. Check IRCC’s calculator, then apply when you’re ready.

Keeping your PR status

1,664 days

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

More about these dates

By this count, you reached 1,095 days on 28 March 2025.

The five years before today hold 1,664. The planned Peru trip moves nothing.

PR card: by this count you have 1,664 days in the last 5 years — 730 needed. It holds.

Your five years since PR end on 1 March 2027. The planned Peru 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

1 Dec 2022 – 30 Nov 2027 · 1,826 days

Every day from 1 December 2022 to 30 November 2027. 1 trip taken, 28 days away in all. 1 planned trip. By this count, the 1,095 days are there on 28 March 2025. Today is 18 October 2026. Peru: 1 Jul 2023 to 30 Jul 2023, 28 days away. Peru, planned: 3 May 2027 to 30 Nov 2027, 210 days away.

Worked through

The count is on the day you sign, so it moves with it. Sign before you leave and the trip is outside it; sign after, and the window 1 December 2022 to 30 November 2027 holds all 210 days of the trip.

The days don’t go away: they were in Canada, and stay in the window until it moves past them. What a long trip can do is bring the count under 1,095 for a while, if it leaves fewer than 1,095 days in the five years before your signing date — here it doesn’t.

Signing first and travelling after is also fine: once IRCC has your application, you can leave Canada and come back for the test, any interview and the ceremony.

What would change the answer

A much longer trip can leave fewer than 1,095 in the five years before the day after you come back: count it in the calculator above before you book.
Still short of the date, the trip moves it: a trip before your citizenship date.