Canada Citizenship Physical Presence Calculator

A tool to help users calculate the number of days spent in Canada to meet the physical presence requirement for citizenship.

Canada Citizenship Physical Presence Calculator Count your days in Canada for the 1,095-day citizenship rule: days as a permanent resident, half-day credit for time before PR, and your trips abroad. Date you plan to sign your application Date you became a permanent resident Optional: date you came to Canada as a worker, student, visitor or with protected status (before PR) Trips outside Canada in the last 5 years + Add a trip Count my days Your result Enter your dates and tap Count my days. How the days are counted 1,095 days in 5 years. You need at least 1,095 days of physical presence in the 5 years before the day you sign. The 5 years start on the same date 5 years earlier and end the day before you sign. Before PR counts as half. Each day in Canada as a temporary resident or with protected status before you became a permanent resident counts as half a day, up to 365 days of credit. Every day as a permanent resident counts as a full day, and at least 730 of your days must be as a permanent resident. Trips. Only full days outside Canada are absences. The day you leave and the day you come back both count as days in Canada, so a trip from July 1 to July 15 removes 13 days. A same-