Canada PR residency obligation: 730 days in 5 years
To keep your permanent resident status, you must have been in Canada for at least 730 days — 2 years — in the last 5 years. The days don’t need to be in a row, and some time outside Canada counts toward them.
PR residency obligation calculator
Count your days in Canada in the last 5 years, plus days abroad that count toward them.
The residency obligation
To keep your PR status, you must have been in Canada for at least 730 days during the last 5 years. The days don’t need to be continuous.
Time abroad that can count
Some days outside Canada count toward the 730, for example while you’re:
- accompanying a Canadian citizen who is your spouse, common-law partner or parent;
- employed full time outside Canada by a Canadian business or in the public service of Canada or a province;
- accompanying a permanent resident spouse or parent who is employed that way.
IRCC’s Help Centre sets out the conditions for each.
Worked example
In the last 5 years you were in Canada for 700 days, and spent 40 days abroad with your Canadian citizen spouse, which count. That’s 740 days — the residency obligation is met.
On the way to citizenship
Citizenship has its own count — 1,095 days in the 5 years before you apply, with days before PR at half. See Canadian citizenship: 1,095 days.
How FlySee counts it
FlySee doesn’t have a Canada PR tracker yet. Its Log records your days in Canada and abroad, and its export lists your trips with dates. The calculator above checks your total against 730; which days abroad count toward it is for you and IRCC.