Canada PR Residency Calculator
Keeping Canadian permanent residence requires 730 days in Canada within every rolling 5-year window. Enter your trips abroad and an assessment date (today, or a planned border crossing or card renewal); the tool shows exactly where you stand. The full rule guide covers the exemptions that let some days abroad count.
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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A rolling obligation, not a one-time test
- Every day is an assessment day. The window slides: being compliant today doesn't guarantee next year if you keep travelling. Long-term, 730-in-5 means averaging at least 146 days a year in Canada.
- Travel days count as days in Canada — the day you leave and the day you return both count, so the calculator credits them.
- Some absences count as presence: abroad with a Canadian-citizen spouse, or working abroad full-time for a Canadian business — those exemption days aren't in this count, so add them on top if they apply to you.
Frequently asked questions
730 days (2 years) within every rolling 5-year period. The days don't need to be consecutive, and for PRs of less than 5 years the question is whether meeting 730 is still possible in your first 5 years.
Yes, in specific cases: travelling with a Canadian-citizen spouse or parent, working full-time abroad for a Canadian business or public service, or accompanying a PR spouse who is. Those days count as if you were in Canada — add them mentally on top of this calculator's count.
Whenever you're 'examined' — at a border crossing, a PR card renewal, or a travel document application. It's always the 5 years immediately before that moment, which is why the assessment date input matters: your compliance changes day by day.
An officer can report you and begin the process of ending your PR status — commonly at a port of entry or PR card renewal. You can appeal on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, but the safer play is to return while you can still accumulate 730 within the window and stay put until compliant.
No — citizenship needs 1,095 days in 5 years (physically present, with a half-day credit for pre-PR time), measured back from your application date. It's a stricter total with different counting; use the Canada citizenship days calculator for that one.
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This rule is tracked automaticallyin
Bounded
- Automatically tracks your days for this rule
- Warns you before an absence puts your status at risk
- Counts arrival and departure days correctly
- Runs alongside your other visa, tax, and residency rules
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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.