Worked cases · Time before PR
Two years as a student before PR: when is citizenship?
By this count, on 1 May 2027 — 730 days after you became a PR on 1 May 2025. Two years in Canada as a student before that, from 1 May 2023 to 30 April 2025, is 731 days, and each counts as half a day, up to 365: the full 365.
Checked against the Government of Canada’s pages on 18 October 2026. Sources: Canadian citizenship: who can apply.
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Becoming a citizen
1 May 2027
By this count, you reach 1,095 days in Canada then — 195 days from today.
Keeping your PR status
535 days
in Canada since your PR date. 730 needed by 1 May 2030 · it holds.
More about these dates
By this count, you reach 1,095 days on 1 May 2027.
That is 195 days from today. 365 of them are credit for days before PR.
PR card: by this count you have 535 days since your PR date — 730 needed by 1 May 2030.
If nothing else changes, you have 1,826 by then. It holds.
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The days left
Every day, five years
1 May 2022 – 30 Apr 2027 · 1,826 days
The five years start 1 May 2022, but nothing counts before 1 May 2023, so the calendar starts there. The window slides with the date.
Every day from 1 May 2022 to 30 April 2027. 0 trips taken, 0 days away in all. By this count, the 1,095 days are there on 1 May 2027. Today is 18 October 2026.
Worked through
On 1 May 2027 the window is 1 May 2022 to 30 April 2027, and the whole study period is inside it. 731 days at half each would be more than the cap allows, so the credit stops at 365. With 730 days as a PR, that is 1,095.
A study permit is temporary resident status. So are a visitor’s, a worker’s and a temporary resident permit holder’s — valid status while you were here is what counts.
What would change the answer
- More years before PR don’t bring the date closer than this: four years on a work permit before PR.
- Fewer: half of what you have, so a year is about half the cap: one year as a worker before PR.
- Every day away as a PR pushes the date a day: a three-month trip and the citizenship date.
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