Travel History Information

[Rucheer12]

Hi,

I have very little information regarding what to enter for this section. Any help will be much appreciated for submitting my E-APR. I came to US for Master's from India on study permit and then working here. The only travel stamps I have on my passport is, to India and back to US for summer break or work PTO.

1) How should this entire thing be shown for travel history in terms of start date and end date. Would the start date be the date on stamp at Indian airport and end date be the date on stamp at the US airport or am I misinterpreting it?
2) Based on answer to 1), should I be entering ALL the stamps on my passport in the above way?

Thank you!!

 

[DEEPCUR]

1) Start date is the start date of your trip. It should be the day you entered US. End date is the day you exit US. You can get the exact end date by pulling travel history from CBP website.

2) You could cover all stamps on your passport stamp by listing every trip to and fro like this.
Trip 1: US enter date and First US exit date : Education
Trip 2: India enter date and India exit date : Vacation
Trip 3: US enter date and ongoing.: Education

And so on.

There is no correct way to do this if you want to cover all your trips, and I used the approach when I submitted my application last month or so.

There is a line that says you don't need to list the trips between your home country and residence, but it has been a highly debatable issue for cases like this where the person had visited only one country. Like many advice against leave the entire section blank.

So I chose the above way by which I can cover all trips associated with my passport.

 

[Rucheer12]

1) Start date is the start date of your trip. It should be the day you entered US. End date is the day you exit US. You can get the exact end date by pulling travel history from CBP website.

2) You could cover all stamps on your passport stamp by listing every trip to and fro like this.
Trip 1: US enter date and First US exit date : Education
Trip 2: India enter date and India exit date : Vacation
Trip 3: US enter date and ongoing.: Education

And so on.

There is no correct way to do this if you want to cover all your trips, and I used the approach when I submitted my application last month or so.

There is a line that says you don't need to list the trips between your home country and residence, but it has been a highly debatable issue for cases like this where the person had visited only one country. Like many advice against leave the entire section blank.

So I chose the above way by which I can cover all trips associated with my passport.

I see. I didn't find any clear guidance on other threads on how to go about it. I think I will follow the method you are suggesting and list all the details in there.

Thank you for the help, Deepcur !!
Cheers.

 

[newtoexpressentry]

yes I did the same started from the date I entered US and then listed every trip I too even if it was to my home country no gaps

 

[newtoexpressentry]

Correct me if i am wrong, arent we supposed to fill the travel history other than country of origin and residence. Meaning, if one stays in the US but is from INDIA...the travel history would be none if that person had not traveled to any other countries

ye technically u r right but I found it easier to just put everything rather than them asking for it later. Did not want to take any chances

 

[DEEPCUR]

Correct me if i am wrong, arent we supposed to fill the travel history other than country of origin and residence. Meaning, if one stays in the US but is from INDIA...the travel history would be none if that person had not traveled to any other countries

What you say is true. But I felt iffy to leave it blank. If you search the forum, you will notice that people have different opinions on leaving it completely blank. The biggest question is if they ask you fill your travel history again through Schedule A request when the application is in progress, you will not know what to do!

Moreover, I had a 4 month trip to India while I was still employed in US when I renewed my passport with Indian address, so my country of residence changed it between. There wasn't a proper way just to list that trip without listing other trips. So I ended up listing everything this way.

 

[argieargie]

I have never travelled to any other country other than my country of origin and Canada, but CIC requested travel history from me. It delayed my PPR. So you better include all travels.

 

[21Goose]

I agree that there's no harm in listing all trips between country of residence and country of origin.

However, it's not mandatory - I submitted a blank travel history (sigh, I've only ever traveled between the US and India - no exotic lands for me), and I didn't have to submit anything later.

Just another data point to consider.

 

[Rucheer12]

I agree that there's no harm in listing all trips between country of residence and country of origin.

However, it's not mandatory - I submitted a blank travel history (sigh, I've only ever traveled between the US and India - no exotic lands for me), and I didn't have to submit anything later.

Just another data point to consider.

Yup same thing for me. No exotic lands just yet. But I will mention all the trips stamped on my passport.
Thanks for the input!