Canadian Citizenship Physical Presence Calculator

Overview

Citizenship physical-presence calculator

Most adult grant applicants need at least 1,095 credited days in Canada during the five-year eligibility period, including at least 730 days as a permanent resident. Eligible pre-PR days count as half-days, capped at 365 days of credit.

Five-year window

Plan your physical-presence total

Count only days inside the five years immediately before the date you intend to sign. Temporary-resident or protected-person days can count as half-days, up to 365 days of credit.

Days in Canada before becoming a PRDays in Canada as a PRDays to exclude from those totals

Estimated physical presence

1,095 days

Pre-PR credit: 0 days. The entered totals reach the 1,095-day threshold and include at least 730 days as a permanent resident.

Use IRCC’s official calculator before applying. Crown-service exceptions, imprisonment and other unusual periods need separate treatment.

Work inside one exact five-year period

The eligibility period ends on the day before the application is signed. Days outside that window cannot be carried into the calculation, even if the person lived in Canada for many years before it began.

Travel dates should be rebuilt from passports, tickets, border records and other dated evidence rather than memory alone.

Pre-PR time is credited differently

A day physically present as an authorized temporary resident or protected person can count as one-half day, up to 365 days in total. Time without a qualifying status does not receive that credit.

At least 730 days in the calculation must still have been spent as a permanent resident.

Use the federal calculator for the filing record

The planner accepts already-classified day totals and cannot decide the status attached to each historical date. IRCC’s physical-presence calculator creates the detailed chronology expected with an online or paper application.

Keep a safety margin instead of applying on the first possible day if the travel record is uncertain.