Residency obligations

[Bahamaboy]

I've been in canada from Dec 2015 and my permanent residence was finalize on the 28 of Feb 2018...so that means those days count for my obligations and citizenship? And

 

[devnill]

No, the residency obligation is only counted from the date that your COPR was signed.

 

[Buletruck]

You can count each day you had legal status before you recieved your PR as 1/2 day for citizenship up to 365 days. So you can count 2 of the years before you got your PR towards 1year of the citizenship requirement, provided you were in Canada legally. You still have about 2 years to go before you can apply.

 

[Bahamaboy]

You can count each day you had legal status before you recieved your PR as 1/2 day for citizenship up to 365 days. So you can count 2 of the years before you got your PR towards 1year of the citizenship requirement, provided you were in Canada legally. You still have about 2 years to go before you can apply.

Yea that's what I was thinking also...so if say I wanted to travel to visit back home for few days say next year summer would that put a damper on my obligations? Or if even this Xmas?

 

[Buletruck]

Nope, you just deduct those days. The time in Canada doesn’t have to be continuous. Just 1095 days in the past 5 years. Go have a visit at home. You’ll be fine.