Citizenship Eligibility :: 3 out of 5 years
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I believe that the 3/5 will mean that the applicant for Canadian citizenship has to have been physically present as a permanent resident within the borders of Canada for at least 3 x 365 days, all of which days will have to have been during the last 5 years. So if you're at 3 years now (as I will be myself come this Friday, yippee!), then you'll be good to go as soon as the 3/5 stipulation reaches its effective date, post Royal Assent (which'll be sometime later today, I gather and sincerely hope). So no, the applicant will not have to have been in Canada for the last 5 years; only 3 x 365 days. But if you needed to in order to get up to 3 x 365 days, then you would be allowed to go back 5 years from your application date and count in any days from back that far (i.e., 5 years ago's date). The only regulatory interpretive uncertainty at this stage, so far as CIC/IRCC bureaucrats are concerned, will presumably to decide whether countable days of physical presence will have to have been during taxable years or not.
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I had a break of 1 year during my stay in last 5 years will that affect my eligibility? I was in Canada for around 300 days in each of 2013 and 2014 and then came back in 2016 with one year 2015 out of Canada ..will that mean they will just look at 1095 days in Canada out of last 5 year?
That applies if he/she has spent the last 3 years within 5 years, not the first 3 years within 5 years. Am I right?
It's actually, if you stayed 1,095 days in Canada within past 1,825 days from the date of your application.
I have spent the 1,095 Days in Canada from the first 5 years can i apply for citizenship?
Don't apply exactly after 2 years of residency. Apply with a buffer of 1 or 2 months extra to avoid any unnecessary delays in processing of your application.
It's not important, all days withing the 5 years period count the same, but it's obviously a red flag if someone spends 3 years in Canada, goes somewhere else and applies from outside nearly 2 years later. Recipe for non routine application
