Live in Windsor while working in the States

[Deleted member 103187]

I'm currently applying for Canadian citizenship. I live in Windsor and work in the States. I probably have at least 150 border crossings to the US since I became a PR. How do I go about about physical presence calculator? Don't think its ever going to be close to accurate even after I got reports from CBSA and CBP? I fear this will delay application as I am not a US citizen either

Any tips from people who have done this in the past? Also what documents should I attach to show ties to Canada to expedite application?

 

[razerblade]

I'm currently applying for Canadian citizenship. I live in Windsor and work in the States. I probably have at least 150 border crossings to the US since I became a PR. How do I go about about physical presence calculator? Don't think its ever going to be close to accurate even after I got reports from CBSA and CBP? I fear this will delay application as I am not a US citizen either

Any tips from people who have done this in the past? Also what documents should I attach to show ties to Canada to expedite application?

Did you try using the following website to see if it shows any records of your travel? It's for people travelling on i94, which probably doesn't apply to you.

https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/I94/

Unfortunately, IRCC expects all day trips to be listed in the calculator even though they don't count as absences.

No need to attach any documents showing ties to Canada with your application. It will onyl complicate things. Just submit only what is asked in the checklist. If they need any more info or docs, they will ask for them later.

 

[dpenabill]

I'm currently applying for Canadian citizenship. I live in Windsor and work in the States. I probably have at least 150 border crossings to the US since I became a PR. How do I go about about physical presence calculator? Don't think its ever going to be close to accurate even after I got reports from CBSA and CBP? I fear this will delay application as I am not a US citizen either

Any tips from people who have done this in the past? Also what documents should I attach to show ties to Canada to expedite application?

In the past, commuter cases were often difficult. But of course it is the difficult ones which got the coverage and which were involved in appeals.

The applicant really needs to do his or her very best to ACCURATELY and COMPLETELY report ALL border crossing trips.

How accurate you can be may affect your decision about the right time to apply. For someone who frequently crosses the border there really is little or no excuse for not having kept precise records. Some estimating is allowed. But there are serious risks if the applicant falls short of accurately accounting for any significant number of trips.

Depending on the extent to which you can affirmatively determine all dates of travel, you may want to wait to apply until you have been keeping precise records and can apply based on a complete and accurate accounting of all dates you crossed the border. This is especially so for a commuter if the CBSA records do not completely show every date of return to Canada.

There is little prospect of expediting a commuter's citizenship application. Best you can hope for is to be accurate and complete enough that it is readily apparent you have been accurate and complete, and are thus not subject to non-routine processing, especially so as to RQ.

 

[rustic]

Please check the link for June applicant, you have similar situation handled very well by one of the candidates. It may be of some help.
https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/june-2017-citizenship-applicants-pre-c6-rule.496182/page-107

 

[links18]

If you have been crossing at Windsor/Detroit, the border crossing records should be fairly accurate and complete over the last three years. You are going to have to go over your records carefully, but if they mostly match up with your declared absences, you will probably be OK. It is important though that you do not have apparent absences in the records that are not declared.

 

[Natan]

I also live in Canada and work in America. When I applied for citizenship I had crossed the border hundreds of times. I applied with the exact number of days and no buffer. Before I sent my application, I obtained border reports from both CBP and CBSA, which I matched against the records I had been keeping. My records were more accurate -- both countries' reports had several mistakes.

IRCC sent me an RQ. My response included copies of the border reports and ample proof that, although I worked mostly in the USA, I lived a life centred in Canada (e.g., bank and credit card statements, receipts for groceries, liquor stores, restaurants, housing, telephone, utilities, parking).

I also included proof of presence in Canada for those days around the mistakes on the border reports. For instance, if the U.S. report showed me entering the U.S. on Monday and Tuesday, but the Canada report only showed me entering Canada on Tuesday, I submitted receipts that established I was in Canada on Monday evening.

 

[AlbertaGovernor]

I'm currently applying for Canadian citizenship. I live in Windsor and work in the States. I probably have at least 150 border crossings to the US since I became a PR. How do I go about about physical presence calculator? Don't think its ever going to be close to accurate even after I got reports from CBSA and CBP? I fear this will delay application as I am not a US citizen either

Any tips from people who have done this in the past? Also what documents should I attach to show ties to Canada to expedite application?

I would recommend you apply for CBP as well as FOIA records before hand to maintain accuracy and consistency in your residency calculator.

AG.