Worked cases · Time before PR
Trips abroad before PR: how much do they cost your citizenship date?
By this count, half of what they would cost after PR. 90 days abroad while you were a student here moved the 1,095 days by 45 days, to 16 June 2027: each of those days would have counted as half a day anyway.
Checked against the Government of Canada’s pages on 18 October 2026. Sources: Canadian citizenship: who can apply, Physical presence calculator: frequently asked questions.
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Becoming a citizen
16 June 2027
By this count, you reach 1,095 days in Canada then — 241 days from today.
Keeping your PR status
655 days
in Canada since your PR date. 730 needed by 1 January 2030 · it holds.
More about these dates
By this count, you reach 1,095 days on 16 June 2027.
That is 241 days from today. 199 of them are credit for days before PR.
PR card: by this count you have 655 days since your PR date — 730 needed by 1 January 2030.
If nothing else changes, you have 1,826 by then. It holds.
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The days left
Every day, five years
16 Jun 2022 – 15 Jun 2027 · 1,826 days
The five years start 16 Jun 2022, but nothing counts before 1 Sep 2023, so the calendar starts there. The window slides with the date.
Every day from 16 June 2022 to 15 June 2027. 2 trips taken, 90 days away in all. By this count, the 1,095 days are there on 16 June 2027. Today is 18 October 2026. Ghana: 15 Dec 2023 to 10 Jan 2024, 25 days away. Ghana: 20 Jun 2024 to 25 Aug 2024, 65 days away.
Worked through
The time before PR, 1 Sep 2023 – 31 Dec 2024, has 398 days in Canada once the trips to Ghana (25 and 65 days) are taken out. Half of that is 199 days of credit.
Without the trips, the credit would be 244 and the date 2 May 2027. Each day of credit lost is a day as a PR to make up, so the date moves 45 days, not 90.
You still declare them: IRCC asks for absences from before you became a PR that fall inside the five years.
What would change the answer
- A trip after PR costs a full day for each day away: a three-month trip and the citizenship date.
- With more than two years before PR, a few trips may cost nothing — the credit stays at the cap: four years on a work permit before PR.
Read next
- The rule behind it: Does time before PR count towards citizenship?
- More cases like this: Time in Canada before PR, or every worked case
- Your own dates: the citizenship calculator