Canada Citizenship Physical Presence Calculator
Canadian citizenship requires 1,095 days physically in Canada during the 5 years before you apply — with time as a temporary resident or protected person before your PR date counting half, up to 365 credited days. Enter your trips, your PR date and when that earlier status began; the tool runs IRCC's counting rules. The full rule guide covers the details.
1 · Your trips outside Canada
Add every trip outside Canada during the qualifying window. The days you depart and return count as days inside — only whole days away count as absences, which matches how the authorities count.
2 · The window
3 · Where you stand
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How IRCC counts (and how people miscount)
- Any part of a day in Canada is a full day — departure and return days included.
- Pre-PR days count half, capped at 365 credited days, and only days with lawful temporary status count at all.
- The window is fixed to your application date — days older than 5 years fall out entirely. If your heavy Canada years are aging out, applying sooner can literally count for more.
- Apply with a buffer. A forgotten weekend in the US can drop you under 1,095; the count must be met on the date you sign, and IRCC encourages applying with more than 1,095 days.
Frequently asked questions
1,095 days (3 years) physically present in Canada during the 5 years before the date you sign your application. IRCC encourages applying with more than 1,095 days in case there's a problem with the calculation.
Each day within the 5 years that you were physically in Canada as a temporary resident (visitor, student, worker, or temporary resident permit holder) or as a protected person (from the date your claim was approved) before becoming a PR counts as half a day, up to a maximum credit of 365 days. So a former student or worker can reach 1,095 with as little as 730 post-PR days. Enter the date that status began and the calculator counts pre-PR days only from then.
Yes — any day with any physical presence in Canada counts in full, including the days you leave and return. This calculator counts them that way, matching IRCC's own presence calculator.
No. Keeping PR needs 730 days in a 5-year period — once you have been a PR for 5 years, in the 5 years before any examination; before that, you must still be able to reach 730 within your first 5 years as a PR. Citizenship needs 1,095 in the 5 years before applying, with the half-day pre-PR credit. You must keep satisfying the PR obligation while you build toward citizenship.
Yes. Days count as days in Canada if you were a permanent resident employed outside Canada in or with the Canadian Armed Forces, the federal public administration or a provincial public service (not as a locally engaged person), or if you lived abroad with a spouse or common-law partner employed that way who was a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident — or, as a child, with a permanent-resident parent employed that way. Leave those days out of your trips so the calculator counts them as presence.
Yes — you must have filed Canadian income tax for at least 3 years within the 5-year period, if required to do so under the Income Tax Act. Presence alone isn't quite the whole test.
Your entries are saved only in your own browser (localStorage). We do record usage events that aren't linked to your name, including the day total and the result category the calculator shows, but not the dates of your trips.
Keep the day record this rule needsin
Bounded
- Logs your days in each country automatically
- Exports a dated travel report when you need evidence
- Records border-crossing days in both countries
- Runs alongside your other visa, tax, and residency rules
Sources
For information only. This calculator is a planning aid based on publicly available rules, not tax, legal, or immigration advice. Border officers and tax authorities make the final call — always confirm with the official sources linked above and a qualified professional before acting.