Canadian PR looking to return

[tokaok2]

hoping for some advice here.

My wife and I are Canadian PR but left in 2022 to return home to Australia. We have current PR Cards until September 2026. When we left, we had only spent roughly 120 days in Canada on our new PR cards. We had been there approximately 450 days prior to that on old PR cards.

My question is, if we returned to Canada in 2025, we would not have enough time on our current cards to reach 730 days. Am I right in saying, once our current cards expire, we just need to wait until we have 730 days before we can renew? Does this restrict us from leaving Canada in that time?

 

[Naturgrl]

hoping for some advice here.

My wife and I are Canadian PR but left in 2022 to return home to Australia. We have current PR Cards until September 2026. When we left, we had only spent roughly 120 days in Canada on our new PR cards. We had been there approximately 450 days prior to that on old PR cards.

My question is, if we returned to Canada in 2025, we would not have enough time on our current cards to reach 730 days. Am I right in saying, once our current cards expire, we just need to wait until we have 730 days before we can renew? Does this restrict us from leaving Canada in that time?

You renew once you meet residency obligations. So 730 days over past 5 years.

 

[armoured]

hoping for some advice here.

My wife and I are Canadian PR but left in 2022 to return home to Australia. We have current PR Cards until September 2026. When we left, we had only spent roughly 120 days in Canada on our new PR cards. We had been there approximately 450 days prior to that on old PR cards.

My question is, if we returned to Canada in 2025, we would not have enough time on our current cards to reach 730 days. Am I right in saying, once our current cards expire, we just need to wait until we have 730 days before we can renew? Does this restrict us from leaving Canada in that time?

When did you first become PRs?

The '730 days in five years' is not directly linked to the cards (although border officers will tend to give benefit of doubt to those with cards, that is a tendency and not a rule - you can have issues when entering even with valid cards).

The rule works this way: 730 days in any five year period (repeat: not linked to card). This includes the first five year period - counted from day of landing to the five year anniversary of first landing, and after that, looking back five years from any day 'examined.' (Examined means, basically, interviewed at border on entry or when making any application to IRCC, including PR card).

Remember: days older than five years 'drop out' of the calculation.

You will probably find it easier to calculate days OUT of Canada. In which case, test is LESS THAN 1095 days outside of Canada in the last five years (but not counting days before becoming a PR).

[This is just arithmetic restatement: MIN 730 days INSIDE Canada = MAX 1095 days OUTSIDE Canada]