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Citizenship physical-presence calculator

Count your days in Canada against the 1,095-day rule for a grant of citizenship. Enter your dates and your trips outside Canada; the calculator applies the counting rules and shows your shortfall, if any. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.

The counting rules this tool applies

IRCC counts physical presence for applications received on or after October 11, 2017, under paragraph 5(1)(c)(i) of the Citizenship Act. The rules below come from IRCC's own page on how physical presence is calculated, read on October 29, 2026:

• You need at least 1,095 days of physical presence in Canada within the five years immediately before the date you sign your application. The calculation cannot go beyond that five-year period.
• You must meet the requirement the day before you sign. The day you sign does not itself count.
• Each day in Canada as a permanent resident counts as one day. Each day in Canada as an authorized temporary resident or protected person before becoming a permanent resident counts as half a day, up to a maximum of 365 days of credit.
• An absence is a day on which you spent no time at all in Canada. The day you leave and the day you return are not absences, because you were in Canada for part of both days. A same-day trip out and back is not an absence.
• February 29 counts as a day of presence or absence under the current rule.
• Time spent serving a sentence, under a probation order, or on parole cannot be counted. Time in Canada without authorized status earns no credit, and time between making a refugee claim and receiving a positive decision confirming protected person status earns none either.

This tool does not handle sentence time, out-of-status time, or time outside Canada as a Crown servant or a Crown servant's family member. If any of that applies to you, use IRCC's own Physical Presence Calculator instead of relying on this estimate. Read the full rules in our guide to tracking your residency days for Canadian citizenship.

Date you plan to sign your application

The five-year window runs backwards from this date. Only days inside it can count.

Date you became a permanent resident

Days from this date onward count as full days. Days before it count only as described in the rules above.

Date you first arrived in Canada

If you were already in Canada when the five-year window opened, enter the window start date shown above. Days before your arrival do not count.

My time in Canada before permanent residence was as an authorized temporary resident or protected person

Authorized temporary resident status means lawful authorization as a visitor, student, worker, or temporary resident permit holder. A protected person is someone found to be a Convention refugee or a person in need of protection, or someone who received a positive Pre-Removal Risk Assessment decision. If this box is unchecked, your pre-permanent-residence days count as zero here.

Trips outside Canada

Add every trip that took you outside Canada during the five-year window. Enter the date you left and the date you returned. Only the days strictly between those two dates count as absences.

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