How to track absence limits for PR and residence permits

What's in the Residency tab

• US Green Card — flags the consecutive absence that endangers permanent-resident status (six months raises questions; a year is presumed abandonment), plus a US Naturalization preset for the presence requirement toward citizenship.
• Canada PR — the 730-days-in-5-years presence obligation, and Canada Citizenship for the naturalization count.
• UK ILR, Skilled Worker, Settled Status, Naturalisation — the absence caps that protect each stage of the UK ladder, including Naturalisation’s dual rule (450 days away in 5 years and 90 in the final 12 months — two bars on one card).
• Residence permits — UAE residence visas, Italy’s Permesso di Soggiorno, Spain’s Golden Visa, EU citizenship tracks (Germany, Portugal, Spain, Cyprus), and more.

Your country’s rule not in the catalog? Most absence caps are a custom counter away — set the direction to Days away with a per-visit cap (consecutive absences) or a rolling window (absence budgets).

Two fields worth setting

When you edit one of these counters, two optional fields make the count precise:

• Start date — “count days from” the day your visa or residency was granted, so travel from before your status began does not pollute a qualifying-period count. Without it, a fresh UK resident with five years of imported history would see the absence caps blown on day one.
• Expiration date — the document’s expiry. The card shows Expires in N days, turning amber inside 60 days and red once passed, so a renewal never sneaks up on you.

Direction: days away

These counters run with the Days away direction — the number grows while you are outside the region and the bar fills toward the absence limit. A consecutive-absence window resets when you return; rolling absence budgets (like the UK caps) do not.