not sure if I'm eligible... please help

[k.h.p.]

Fair enough. I take back my "ill-informed" comment.

It's all good. Thanks for calling me out on it - sometimes people here do make ill-informed comments.

 

[marta cocchi]

Thank you everyone for your time and patience. I got a bit lost trying to understand the acronyms and details of the rules you mention but I really appreciate your efforts in helping me. So, I never overstayed the 6 months and my partner is my PR sponsor so my understanding is a have a chance that my application will be looked at. There's also the possibility that it will be returned.
It may just make more sense to wait until I have enough days after my PR was approved, which according to the physical presence calculator is in one year time.
Thank you again everybody.

 

[dpenabill]

It may just make more sense to wait until I have enough days after my PR was approved . . .

Waiting makes a lot of sense. Remember to still include the pre-PR days in the presence calculation, but for sure it is a good idea to wait to apply when you have enough days based on well-documented status, which appears likely to be limited to days AFTER the date of landing and becoming a PR. (The easiest way to do this is to do a separate draft presence calculation, not counting pre-PR days at all, and when that draft shows the requirement has been met, plus a bit of a margin, then do the formal, to be submitted version of the presence calculation including the pre-PR days . . . being sure to include responses in the application as to your periods of visitor status.)

The gist of my lengthy posts: If your passport was stamped. Or you had a Visitor's Record. Or your sponsored family class PR application was an INLAND application: To the extent any of these documents YOUR status as a temporary resident, you could rely on those days counting (at the half day credit for each day). Best to still have a bigger than usual margin over the minimum, but it should be safe to rely on pre-PR days for which IRCC is likely to have its own records (in your GCMS records) showing or at least corroborating status (such as the inland sponsored partner application process should).