Hello group

Is there an easier way to find the number of days spent in Canada instead of looking thought each stamp on the passport. Can I get list of entry and exits from CIC.

Thanks in advance
rsk

The easiest way is for you to sit down and organize your movements, travels, expenses etc., in a chronological order, which means, starting from the day you got out of your own country (of start) and from the very first day of landing here in Canada and build it up gradually to the current.

You may have to look into the Itinerary given to you by your travel agent and the money you paid for the tickets etc., for EACH and every one of you and the family. Then look for the tickets, the seat stubs (Boarding Pass), any receipts for the purchases made at duty free shop or on board the flights, plus a copy of the Declaration made prior to landing etc., will surely help.

Also any receipts for the taxies or the limo services that you used and the rental receipts from the Hotels, Paying guest or any other expenses incurred and for which you may still have all of the receipts in a shoe box? or your brief case. Any credit card receipts will also come in handy. Sit down with the family members and work back wards, jog your memories, and for the dates that you are looking for and some times a few friends whom you might have met and they might remember them too, all of these are vital.

They will ask for all of these when you apply for your citizenship, so get started. Do you remember the saying "My whole life flashed before me", sit down and see if it will? If it does, then, you are a genius. I will take my hats off to you.

Hope this helps.

Good Luck.

FH.

You can apply for your entry exit record online.


CBSA - Canada border Service Agency Entry Exit Record
http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/agency-agence/reports-rapports/pia-efvp/atip-aiprp/req-dem-priv-eng.html


CBP - For travel report to/from US.
https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/1738/kw/getting%20travel%20history%20report/related/1

Calculation of number of days will ofcourse still will be manual. Or use microsoft excel tool.

Simple but effective way would have been a spreadsheet. I used to have one in which I documented any overnight out of country trips - dates traveled, purpose of visit, and the place I traveled to. Since many of my overnight trips were across road borders, there were no stamps. I submitted this spreadsheet along with my citizenship application, and not a single question was asked.

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Dimple2001

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Simple but effective way would have been a spreadsheet. I used to have one in which I documented any overnight out of country trips - dates traveled, purpose of visit, and the place I traveled to. Since many of my overnight trips were across road borders, there were no stamps. I submitted this spreadsheet along with my citizenship application, and not a single question was asked.

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Originally posted by dimple2001
Call your self lucky, I also maintained such record meticulously and produced, still had to spend one year in collecting and sumitting docs from CBSA and CBP to convince that I lived in Canada not in US. There was one stamp missing on passport related to my travel back from US ( it was road a travel) and I was told to prove that I was not in US since then.
I suggest every US bound traveller to not to move from the window till your Indian pp is stamped and also make it a point to convey to the immigration officer that trouble a lack of stamp causes during citizenship application.

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Understood. Thanks for sharing. Me being in the border town, travel to the US was perhaps considered a norm.