Gaps in address history? And a Rant

[stubish]

Why in the name of all that is holy have CIC not trained call center staff on the EE?!? It's over 12 month old.

Regardless. There's one gap in my 10 year address history where I was traveling for a month. How should I proceed to fill in the form that demands that there is no gap in the history and needs an address? Fudge it and put 'traveling' in the street name? Something different?

Don't want to mess this up, I'm one year older now and would have missed the last few draws!

 

[maddy.10m]

Others can corroborate my point. I used to travel a lot for my work. Sometimes even for extensive duration like for a year, staying in company guest houses or hotels. I mentioned my home address for these times. But in my travel history, I had mentioned details of the trips. In cases where I had an address, I have mentioned the address. There is no way Im going to be able to list all 50 hotels I have stayed in and I don't think CIC expects that.

 

[stubish]

Thanks for the heads up. I can only imagine how much that sucks.

I'm in the same boat with travel. Im australian my wife is american. I've done short trips to the USA a LOT (often less than a day). I'm struggling to put the travel history together.

Any suggestions on that?

 

[245east84]

Thanks for the heads up. I can only imagine how much that sucks.

I'm in the same boat with travel. Im australian my wife is american. I've done short trips to the USA a LOT (often less than a day). I'm struggling to put the travel history together.

Any suggestions on that?

Your thread topic made me laugh out loud so thanks for that. There should be a 'rant' section on this forum where people are only allowed to use f-bombs and other curse words.

As far as international travel is concerned, have you kept your old passports? I am assuming you got an 'entry' stamp on your passport when you went to the US so you could use those.

If you made any trips within your home country (Australia) I would not mention those in the travel history and CIC has no way of tracking those. So hopefully that should simplify things a little.

 

[maddy.10m]

Agree with 245east. That's what I did. I think travel history is important and do everything you can to get it right. I spent about 2 hours to review my passports for dates. For recent US trips, you may be able to find the history in the online I-94 page: https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/I94/consent.html. It works for H1s, not sure about other visa types.

 

[ozlis]

Review your passport and I found facebook to be a very useful (if not a little like stalking myself) to pull dates together for trips.