A certain irony
Wednesday, 27 September 2006 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daAfter my post yesterday, I was miffed to discover this morning that I can't apply for citizenship yet, after all.
Math error. Arrrrgh!
I got through being grumpy, though, and now I'm mostly a bit amused at my inability to add.
The rule is that you can apply for Canadian Citizenship if you've been a Permanent Resident in Canada for three of the previous four years. 1095 days in Canada.
Also, time from the last four years, before Permanent Residency was received, counts half-credit.
That's an easy problem, especially since there's a website to calculate the days between two dates. (I could code one of my own, but why bother? someone already did.)
Days = ((date today) - (date of PR)) + (((date of PR) - (4 years ago)) / 2)
You can pretty easily find the minimum number of days after you've gotten your PR card, that you can apply. Before you folks with OCD go and calculate it in your head: remember it's days in Canada.
Days that you were outside Canada are subtracted from the total. They mean it: every trip that includes a night away counts.
I have a nice tabulated list of where I was, when, and why, going back to April of 2002. It adds up to 136 days in the last four years. (Wanna see it? I didn't think so).
So, I figured it out in May. I was 110 days short, then. 110 days away was... mid September.
I forgot to count these days as half (because I was subtracting half a day from the other end; from 4 years ago before I got PR status). So right now I'm at 1074 days. My real date is early November. To be safe, I'll make it around the end of November.
'fraid I don't have any good closing to this post. But I figured I'd give y'all a nice big bowl of schadenfreude. Mmmmmm.... schadenfreude...
Math error. Arrrrgh!
I got through being grumpy, though, and now I'm mostly a bit amused at my inability to add.
The rule is that you can apply for Canadian Citizenship if you've been a Permanent Resident in Canada for three of the previous four years. 1095 days in Canada.
Also, time from the last four years, before Permanent Residency was received, counts half-credit.
That's an easy problem, especially since there's a website to calculate the days between two dates. (I could code one of my own, but why bother? someone already did.)
Days = ((date today) - (date of PR)) + (((date of PR) - (4 years ago)) / 2)
You can pretty easily find the minimum number of days after you've gotten your PR card, that you can apply. Before you folks with OCD go and calculate it in your head: remember it's days in Canada.
Days that you were outside Canada are subtracted from the total. They mean it: every trip that includes a night away counts.
I have a nice tabulated list of where I was, when, and why, going back to April of 2002. It adds up to 136 days in the last four years. (Wanna see it? I didn't think so).
So, I figured it out in May. I was 110 days short, then. 110 days away was... mid September.
I forgot to count these days as half (because I was subtracting half a day from the other end; from 4 years ago before I got PR status). So right now I'm at 1074 days. My real date is early November. To be safe, I'll make it around the end of November.
'fraid I don't have any good closing to this post. But I figured I'd give y'all a nice big bowl of schadenfreude. Mmmmmm.... schadenfreude...
