Guyz help please in counthing the dayz for citizenship

[monbey]

i have entered canada in 2003 on a student visa and had legal status till may 2008 after may 2008 my visa expired and stayed here illegaly untill i got my PR on april 2010 what do all these days count for me when applying for citizenship :

january 2003 ----may 2008 :legal status on a student Visa
may 2008 ----april 2010 :illegal status

Thank you in advance

 

[PMM]

Hi

i have entered canada in 2003 on a student visa and had legal status till may 2008 after may 2008 my visa expired and stayed here illegaly untill i got my PR on april 2010 what do all these days count for me when applying for citizenship :

january 2003 ----may 2008 :legal status on a student Visa
may 2008 ----april 2010 :illegal status

Thank you in advance

You can't count your "illegal stay" so for citizenship, you start counting the day you received your PR.

 

[monbey]

Thank you for your response PMM from what you wrote i understand that all the years that i stayed here legally count for nothing . is that right !

 

[PMM]

Hi

Thank you for your response PMM from what you wrote i understand that all the years that i stayed here legally count for nothing . is that right !

As you can only count 2 years of time as a visitor at half credit, they legal times are too far out.

 

[Leon]

Only the last 4 years before you apply for citizenship count and you must have been a PR for at least 2 of them. If you look at how many days you would have in april 2012, you would have 730 days from april 2010 to april 2012. Then you would look at the period from april 2008 to april 2010 and since you were only legal for one month in that period, that would give you another 15 days so you would have 745 days at that point. That is not enough time.