Citizenship residency requirement

[zain9408]

Hi All - I will appreciate if anyone can advise on below situation.
If some one on a PR Status from January 2015 to January 2019 (5 Years) and lived only 2 years, will he be eligible to renewed his PR for next 5 years from January 2019 to January 2023 and again lived for 1 Year till January 2020 on new PR so my question is after spending 1 year on new PR and 2 years on previous PR which will be 3 years, will he be eligible for Citizenship application or he need to spend 3 years on new PR to be eligible for Citizenship.

 

[Bs65]

Already answered in the pr and citizenship sections

Answer the same PR card renewal dates are not relevant to citizenship application and you only renew a PR card you do not renew PR status which is a constant with or without a PR card unless renounced or revoked.

The important thing is at least 1095 days physical presence in. canada in the 5 years immediately prior to the citizenship application date. This can be made up of time before being a PR at one half day credit for each full day plus days post becoming a PR or all days after becoming a PR as long as is within the 5 years immediately prior to the application date.

Maybe a typo but Jan 2015 to Jan 2019 is obviously 4 years not 5

 

[canuck78]

Also not sure if you are understanding of running total i.e. that after the first 5 years you need to constantly be meeting the 2 out of 5 year rule.

2015-2020: must meet 2 years
after that
2016-2021:must have lived in Canada 2 years
2017-2022:must have lived in Canada for 2 years
2018-2023: must have lived in Canada for 2 years.