From PR to Citizen and counting days as Student and Worker

[s3nr1]

Hi, I received my PR (CEC) June last year. I got a letter along side CoPR (AFAIK) saying that I can apply for citizenship after ~3 years.

Then I read that I could use the time spent in Canada as Student and Worker into that 3 years. I understand that 1 day as PR is 0.5 day as Student/Worker.
Based on https://eservices.cic.gc.ca/rescalc/resCalcStartNew.do I could be a Citizen next year (after add my details).

Am I correct or I am misunderstanding this?

Thanks!

 

[scylla]

Hi, I received my PR (CEC) June last year. I got a letter along side CoPR (AFAIK) saying that I can apply for citizenship after ~3 years.

Then I read that I could use the time spent in Canada as Student and Worker into that 3 years. I understand that 1 day as PR is 0.5 day as Student/Worker.
Based on https://eservices.cic.gc.ca/rescalc/resCalcStartNew.do I could be a Citizen next year (after add my details).

Am I correct or I am misunderstanding this?

Thanks!

You can only claim up to 1 year of pre-PR time towards citizenship.

So the earliest you'll qualify to apply for citizenship is two years after you became a PR - this assume you don't leave Canada during those two years.

This means the earliest you'll qualify to apply is June of 2022 based on when you became a PR. Most likely this means you would become a citizen sometime in 2023 (not 2022) since it takes several months for the application to be processed and for your test and oath to take place.