Adding travelling to the calculator online - Travel with stopover

[cdn07]

Hi,
Apologies in advance if this question was answered before.

How do I add a trip to my calculator that happened as follow:

Crossed the border to USA, slept that night in Buffalo and next day traveled to Mexico.

How should I add the date?

eg.
01/January/2013 - 02-January 2013 - USA
02/January 2013 - 10 - January 2013 - Mexico

OR

01/January/2013 - 10 January 2013 - USA & Mexico

Thanks in advance, I am finalizing details to send out tomorrow.

Regards,

Linda

 

[screech339]

The first option listed. They only allow you list one country. Not 2.

 

[cdn07]

The first option listed. They only allow you list one country. Not 2.

Thank you!

 

[scylla]

We actually went with option #2 for my husband's application. He had plenty of trips that involved multiple countries and/or stopovers. He mentioned the primary country visited in the country field - and then added the additional countries visited or stopover countries in the purpose of trip / comments field. CIC had no objections to this approach.

 

[alphazip]

Hi,
Apologies in advance if this question was answered before.

How do I add a trip to my calculator that happened as follow:

Crossed the border to USA, slept that night in Buffalo and next day traveled to Mexico.

How should I add the date?

eg.
01/January/2013 - 02-January 2013 - USA
02/January 2013 - 10 - January 2013 - Mexico

OR

01/January/2013 - 10 January 2013 - USA & Mexico

Thanks in advance, I am finalizing details to send out tomorrow.

Regards,

Linda

The instructions for the Residence Calculator state: "If you visited more than one country during the same absence, list the first country in 'Destination' and list the other countries in the 'Reason' field."

Therefore, I would opt for:

"01/January/2013 - 10 January 2013 - USA
Reason: Travelled through USA en route to vacation in Mexico"

If the trip is split up (as in the 1st option you mentioned) it *could* suggest that from the 1st to the 2nd you went to the USA, then returned to Canada, then from the 2nd through 10th were in Mexico. The main thing CIC is looking for is days outside of Canada on that one 9-day trip.

Also, I know from personal experience that the Residence Calculator will not accept two trips on the same day (2 January), so option one would not even be possible.