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.

 

[sns204]

You don't renew your PR, you're getting that confused with your PR card, a travel document. In order to keep your PR in good standing, you're required to meet a residency obligation of 2 years out of 5. This is a "rolling" requirement, in that the 5 years is always rolling forward.

For example:
You get your PR Jan 2015 and live here until Jan 2017. Then come back and live here from Jan 2019 - Jan 2020.
- For the span of Jan 2015-2020, you have three years in 5 (meet PR obligation)
- For Jan 2016-2021, you have two years in 5 (meets PR obligation)
- For Jan 2017-2022, you have one year in 5 (in default of your PR obligation)

As for your citizenship requirement:
If you lived in Canada from January 1 2015 - January 1 2017 and then January 1 2019 - January 1 2020, that would be 3 years in the previous 5, if you apply on January 1 2020. If you apply in February 2020, you won't have enough days.

(I'm sure someone will correct my math if needed...)

When did you actually live in Canada?

 

[zain9408]

You don't renew your PR, you're getting that confused with your PR card, a travel document. In order to keep your PR in good standing, you're required to meet a residency obligation of 2 years out of 5. This is a "rolling" requirement, in that the 5 years is always rolling forward.

For example:
You get your PR Jan 2015 and live here until Jan 2017. Then come back and live here from Jan 2019 - Jan 2020.
- For the span of Jan 2015-2020, you have three years in 5 (meet PR obligation)
- For Jan 2016-2021, you have two years in 5 (meets PR obligation)
- For Jan 2017-2022, you have one year in 5 (in default of your PR obligation)

As for your citizenship requirement:
If you lived in Canada from January 1 2015 - January 1 2017 and then January 1 2019 - January 1 2020, that would be 3 years in the previous 5, if you apply on January 1 2020. If you apply in February 2020, you won't have enough days.

(I'm sure someone will correct my math if needed...)

When did you actually live in Canada?

Many thanks for your reply.
Sorry my previous question was not clear -

If someone living last 2 years (Jan 2017 to Jan 2019) in Canada out of 5 year PR period (Jan 2015 to Jan 2019) he became eligible to apply for PR renewal and got his PR renewal from (Jan 2019 to Jan 2023) and he continue living for 1 more year (jan 2019 to Jan 2020) so now he has completed 3 years out of previous 5 Years so will he be eligible to apply for citizenship in Jan 2020 or not?
My confusion is do we need to live 3 years out of one PR tenure or it can be split in 2 different PR tenures and just live 3 years in last 5 years (2 tenures)? No rolling condition like PR renewal.

 

[Bs65]

Already answered here https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/citizenship-residency-requirement.561252/

Basically to apply for citizenship you need to show physical presence of 1095 days in Canada in the 5 years preceeding the application date for citizenship. It has nothing to do with PR card validity just about physical presence in Canada in the previous 5 years at application date time.

So if you live in Canada Jan 2017 through Jan 2020 and accumulate 1095 days physically in Canada you could apply Jan 2020 given in the 5 years Jan 2020 back to Jan 2015 you would have met the citizenship physical presence requirement as long as there are always 1095 days at the application date.

Nothing at all to do with PR card validity or renewal, the only commonality being both applications involve a rolling 5 year period at application time.