Applying for citizenship
Citizenship days calculator: when do you reach 1,095 days?
Enter the day you became a permanent resident, any earlier stay in Canada and each trip abroad, taken or planned: the first date that works appears with the full count.
Your 1,095th day is reached on
Already reached: you meet it today
How the window adds up on that date
| Days present as a PR | 1,220 |
| Credit for the earlier stay (½ day each) | 283.5 |
| Whole days abroad in the window | 39 |
| Total credited | 1,503 / 1,095 |
| Window counted | October 25, 2021 → October 24, 2026 |
The physical presence rule for Canadian citizenship asks for 1,095 days in Canada within the 5 years before the day you sign your application, and that signing day itself is left out of the count: the window closes the day before. Inside it, a day as a permanent resident is worth one day and a day spent here earlier as a temporary resident or protected person is worth 0.5, up to 365 days of credit, with at least 730 days as a permanent resident in any case. An absence is only a day spent entirely outside Canada, so the day you leave and the day you return both count as present. February 29 is counted like any other day. The calculator above applies these rules to your own dates and searches forward, one day at a time, for the first signing date that reaches the total, including trips you have only planned. It is a planning tool: the count IRCC receives comes from its own calculator, inside your online account.
How many days am I short?
Days short
45
| Days credited | 1,050 |
| Credit before PR (half, max 365) | 150 |
| At least 730 days as a PR | met |
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What the calculator shows
You give three kinds of dates: the day you landed as a permanent resident, the start of any earlier legal stay in Canada (work or study permit, visitor, protected person), and the departure and return of each trip abroad. You can add as many trips as you need, including future ones. The result panel gives the first date on which you can sign, how many days away it is, and the breakdown of the 5-year window on that date: days present as a permanent resident, credit for the earlier stay, whole days spent abroad, the credited total against 1,095 and the exact start and end of the window. When the total sits within five days of the threshold, a warning asks you to keep a margin, because a single wrong stamp could change the answer. The link in your address bar keeps your dates, so you can come back to them or share them with a partner.
A worked example
Take a newcomer who became a permanent resident on June 1, 2021, arrived that day and never left. Each day from June 1, 2021 counts in full. The 1,095th day falls on May 30, 2024, so the first date she can sign is May 31, 2024: the window then runs from May 31, 2019 to May 30, 2024, and the signing day stays outside it. Note that February 29, 2024 is in the window and counts.
Now add one trip: she flies out on August 4, 2023 and comes back on August 25, 2023. The departure and return days are days in Canada; only the 20 days in between are absences. Her first signing date moves by exactly those 20 days, to June 20, 2024.
Last, suppose she had held a work permit from November 16, 2020 until she became a permanent resident. That gives 197 days before permanent residence, worth 98.5 days of credit. With the trip, the first signing date comes forward to March 14, 2024, where the window holds 997 days as a permanent resident plus that credit, 1,095.5 in total. The credit can never exceed 365 days, so nobody can apply with fewer than 730 days as a permanent resident.
| Scenario | Whole days abroad | Credit before PR | First signing date |
|---|---|---|---|
| No trip, no earlier stay | 0 | 0 | May 31, 2024 |
| One trip of three weeks | 20 | 0 | June 20, 2024 |
| Same trip plus a work permit | 20 | 98.5 | March 14, 2024 |
Why the signing day is left out
IRCC’s program delivery instructions on physical presence state that the day of application is not counted and that the requirement must be met on the day before you sign. They also say absences are counted only for days with no time at all in Canada and that February 29 counts. These rules apply to applications received from October 11, 2017 onward. The date of signature on your form is the application date of the calculation, which is why the application page insists on signing and dating the form the same day.
Gathering your travel dates
Work from documents, not memory. Lay out every passport and travel document you held during the window, since IRCC asks for colour copies of all of them; then use the entry and exit stamps, flight confirmations in your email and leave records from your employer to rebuild each trip. Write each trip as one departure and one return. If two trips overlap, the calculator says so and asks you to merge them. When a date is uncertain, choose the one that is less favourable to you and check whether your result still holds.
This calculator and IRCC’s
IRCC offers an official physical presence calculator, and online applicants must use the calculator inside their IRCC account; that result is the one that goes into your file. Our tool does not replace it. It answers a different question, the first date that works, and it handles planned trips. It does not handle the special cases: days in prison, on parole or on probation (which do not count), and days abroad as a Crown servant or a Crown servant’s family member (which count in full on a paper application). If one applies to you, use the official calculator. The page on permanent resident days goes deeper into the 730-day floor, and the second calculator below the summary gives a quick total from day counts you already know.