Period of stay in Canada before becoming a resident

[456987]

Hi I have a question. While going through residence calculator it mentions "each day you lived in Canada before you became a permanent resident counts as half a day;"
I came to Canada a year before I became I got my PR. However I came as a visitor and got married and thereafter filed for PR. Does this period get counted (as a half a day) to add to my residence calculator??

 

[alexdive]

https://eservices.cic.gc.ca/rescalc/redir.do?redir=faq#Q1

Only the four (4) years preceding the date of your application are taken into account. Within that four-year period:

Every day you spend in Canada as a permanent resident counts as a full day.
Every day you spend in Canada before you become a permanent resident counts as a half-day.
Time spent serving a sentence in Canada does not count towards the residence requirement (i.e. you cannot count time spent in a prison, penitentiary, jail, reformatory, on conditional sentence, probation and/or on parole as residence). See Question 12 for exceptions to this rule.
Absences from Canada may have an impact on your residence. Only a citizenship judge can determine if you meet the residence requirements with fewer than 1,095 days of physical presence. See Question 8 for information on applying with fewer than 1,095 days of physical presence.

 

[456987]

Thank You

 

[chikloo]

Hi I have a question. While going through residence calculator it mentions "each day you lived in Canada before you became a permanent resident counts as half a day;"
I came to Canada a year before I became I got my PR. However I came as a visitor and got married and thereafter filed for PR. Does this period get counted (as a half a day) to add to my residence calculator??

Time as a visitor is counted as half a day (upto a year) towards your citizenship provided it is within the last fours period considered in the application.