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Away for years after becoming a PR: when do the 1,095 days come?
By this count, on 31 August 2025 — 2,420 days after you became a PR on 15 January 2019. Away from 1 March 2019 to 1 September 2022, you sign once the five years before you sign hold no more than 731 of the trip’s days: the other 1,095 must be days in Canada.
Checked against the Government of Canada’s pages on 18 October 2026. Sources: Canadian citizenship: who can apply, Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, section 28.
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Becoming a citizen
You have your days.
By this count, you reached 1,095 days on 31 August 2025. Check IRCC’s calculator, then apply when you’re ready.
Keeping your PR status
1,508 days
in Canada in the last 5 years. 730 needed · it holds.
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By this count, you reached 1,095 days on 31 August 2025.
The five years before today hold 1,508.
PR card: by this count you have 1,508 days in the last 5 years — 730 needed. It holds.
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The days left
Every day, five years
19 Oct 2021 – 18 Oct 2026 · 1,826 days
Every day from 19 October 2021 to 18 October 2026. 1 trip taken, 1,279 days away in all. By this count, the 1,095 days are there on 31 August 2025. Today is 18 October 2026. Australia: 1 Mar 2019 to 1 Sep 2022, 1,279 days away.
Worked through
The trip was 1,279 days away. On 31 August 2025 the window runs from 31 August 2020 to 30 August 2025, 1,826 days: the trip’s first days have left it, 731 of them are still inside as days away, and the other 1,095 are every day since you came back on 1 September 2022.
So the date isn’t when the trip has left the window. It is when the window holds 1,095 days in Canada — here, 1,095 days after your return, because the weeks you spent here before leaving have already left it.
The same trip left the PR card’s count short: 547 days by the fifth anniversary, 15 January 2024, where the law asks for 730.
What would change the answer
- A shorter absence, the same rule: a three-month trip and the citizenship date.
- What the shortfall means for the PR card: can’t reach 730 by the fifth anniversary.
Read next
- The rule behind it: When can I apply for citizenship after PR?
- More cases like this: When you reach 1,095 days, or every worked case
- Your own dates: the citizenship calculator