Worked cases · Time before PR
Months as a visitor before PR: do they count towards citizenship?
By this count, yes, by half: a visitor is a temporary resident, and 184 days here as one before a PR date of 3 November 2025 are 92 days of credit. The 1,095 come on 2 August 2028 — 92 days sooner than without them.
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
2 August 2028
By this count, you reach 1,095 days in Canada then — 654 days from today.
Keeping your PR status
349 days
in Canada since your PR date. 730 needed by 3 November 2030 · it holds.
More about these dates
By this count, you reach 1,095 days on 2 August 2028.
That is 654 days from today. 92 of them are credit for days before PR.
PR card: by this count you have 349 days since your PR date — 730 needed by 3 November 2030.
If nothing else changes, you have 1,826 by then. It holds.
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The days left
Every day, five years
2 Aug 2023 – 1 Aug 2028 · 1,827 days
The five years start 2 Aug 2023, but nothing counts before 3 May 2025, so the calendar starts there. The window slides with the date.
Every day from 2 August 2023 to 1 August 2028. 0 trips taken, 0 days away in all. By this count, the 1,095 days are there on 2 August 2028. Today is 18 October 2026.
Worked through
The visit, 3 May – 2 Nov 2025, ran up to the day before PR, all of it inside the five years before 2 August 2028. Half of 184 is 92, so 1,003 days as a PR complete the count.
What doesn’t count is time without authorized status: if a visit ran past the date you were allowed to stay, the days after it are left out.
What would change the answer
- Longer stays with status give more, up to 365 days of credit: two years as a student before PR.
- Trips during the visits cost half a day each: trips abroad 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