residex.ioEvery trip accounted forCanada’s PR Residency Obligation: 730 Days in Five Years
A rolling five-year window, and days that can count from abroad
A floor, not a ceiling
Most of the rules residex.io tracks are limits: stay under a number. Canada’s residency obligation is the opposite. To keep permanent residence you must be physically present in Canada for at least 730 days — two years — in every five-year period. Presence anywhere in the five years counts; the days need not be consecutive.
The window is rolling. When an officer examines you, at the border or on a card renewal, they look at the five years ending that day. For a permanent resident of fewer than five years, the question is whether meeting 730 is still possible before the fifth anniversary.
Days that count without being in Canada
Time outside Canada counts towards the 730 if you were accompanying a Canadian citizen who is your spouse, common-law partner or parent; if you were employed full-time abroad by a Canadian business or the public service; or if you were accompanying a permanent resident spouse or parent who was so employed. Those days are real, and Residex cannot see them: it only knows where you were, not why.
Falling short
A permanent resident found not to have met the obligation can lose the status, though humanitarian and compassionate factors are considered, and the decision can be appealed. Renewing a PR card while short is the usual point at which the shortfall surfaces. Citizenship, separately, requires 1,095 days of presence in the five years before applying — a higher bar on the same kind of count.
What residex.io does about it
Once you record a Canadian permanent residence in Settings, Residex counts your days present in Canada over a rolling five-year window and shows the figure against the 730-day floor, flagging it when the margin gets thin. It is informational rather than an alarm: the exceptions above can add days it does not know about, and a new permanent resident has time in hand.
Who needs to watch this
- Permanent residents working outside Canada
- Families where one spouse is a Canadian citizen abroad
- New permanent residents who have not yet settled in
- Anyone renewing a PR card after years of travel
Counting days is where this stops
Residex tells you exactly where you stand against this threshold and warns you before you cross it. Crossing it is not a conclusion, though: it does not tell you what you owe, whether a treaty offers relief, which forms to file, or how this interacts with residency you already hold elsewhere.
That is where Amanda picks up — turning a day count into a read on your real cross-border obligations.
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How residex.io works
residex.io tracks where you have physically been, and tells you where that puts you against each country's own residency threshold.
What it does: • Counts your days per country, and per area for the Schengen 90/180 rule • Applies each country's actual rule — 183 days for most, 180 for Thailand, the UK's 6 April tax year, Portugal's rolling twelve months, and the US weighted three-year test • Counts days the way each rule counts them, including the arrival and departure days that most tests count and a nights-based tally misses • Warns as you approach a threshold, and can notify you on the date a trip you have already planned would take you across it • Exports to CSV, or hands off to Amanda for the compliance picture
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On your device, and nowhere else. There is no account, no login, and no copy of your travel history on our servers — residex works offline because the data never needed to be anywhere else.
It leaves your device only when you decide to send it: • A backup file you save yourself • A transfer to another device, encrypted with a code only you hold — the server relaying it cannot read what it is carrying • A hand-off to Amanda, which you start
We do receive a small amount of anonymous usage information — how many trips are in a log, how old an install is, the language the app is used in, and a random identifier that is not linked to you. Never a trip, a date, a destination, or your name. It is listed in full in our Privacy Policy.
The trade-off worth knowing: because your device holds the only copy, clearing your browser data or deleting the app erases it, and we cannot restore it. Save a backup before you switch devices.
No — residex is a day counter, not a compliance engine. It flags when you cross a threshold like the 183-day rule, but turning that into specific filings, tax exposure, or reporting obligations depends on your jurisdictions and personal ties.
For that, our partner Amanda maps your full cross-border legal exposure across countries, surfaces the filings and deadlines you trigger, and turns the data residex collects into a concrete compliance picture you can hand to your accountant.
You can export your residex trips and import them straight into Amanda — the CSV formats are aligned.