My wife’s card will expire in June. I have not ordered data or really kept any records. Is this something we will need to do?
Well you do have to list the complete travel history (including trips across the border at a land PoE) for the 5 year period that will be assessed for meeting the R.O., which surprises more than a few PRs...perhaps some U.S. citizens as well.
That’s crazy. That’s seems excessive to simply renew a card, especially when it says this on the website :
Read this part, again:
So, if a PR has been keeping accurate travel history on their own, you would not need to even consider getting a copy from CBSA...to cross check your data. You stated that "I have not ordered data or really kept any records.", which says that you haven't.
This may be a silly question, but is renewing a PR card the same as renewing PR?Agreed, but it is what it is. I had long believed that a U.S. citizen's travel history was likely not complete, since CBSA [apparently] never tracked exits from Canada for U.S. and Canadian citizens prior to ~June 2019 (by land) and ~June 2020 (by air). Even now, they don't really track exits; they get entry records from CBP and/or passenger manifest data from an airline. That, in essence, constitutes an exit from Canada...but when I personally called CBSA to inquire (recently), the officer's reply was "I've never heard of that".
You should start piecing together this puzzle now. Flights are easy to retrace, but those day/weekend trips across a land border...not so easy. I would hope that once you have shown that the R.O. has been met (by eclipsing the 730 days in Canada benchmark) the other data may not need to be exact, but...who really knows. Since you have to state that all of the information in the application is true and accurate, I would suggest that if you do not recall 100%, include a short statement attesting to that.
Will I need to get entry/exit information from both Canada and the USA? How do I go about doing this?
Fill in this Personal Information Request Form. Request from the Canada Border Service Agency. Please also put details like date of birth and name or passport number if you are requesting for travel history
You need to provide accurate travel history, so if you haven't kept track, you should make a ATIP request through CBSA. Have you had a lot of trips across a land border in the past ~5 years?
I actually ended up going on the CBP website and was able to look up travel records. Between those and pictures on my cell phone and my wife’s cell phone, we have pretty accurate records (we always take pictures of the border lines) I will also do an ATIP request as well
Isn't your wife a U.S. citizen? According to this, records are not available for a U.S. citizen:
