How do the POE Officer calculate Residence Days

[haidar]

Hi,

I am PR of Canada since June 2011, and moving in and out Canada by airplane several times. Now I am outside Canada and when I will arrive next time (July 2014) I will exceed the three years period of residency, although I stayed totally about six month intermittently in Canada.

My question is, How will the POE officer calculate and verify the six month that I stayed in Canada when I arrive at the airport make a decision and allow me to enter Canada safely and (count the six months toward my two years out of five years)?

Will he look at passport stamps for other countries visited or tickets or certain bills or they check through computers? or how exactly? I want to convince the Officer at POE in case he have any doubt or incomplete information that I have lived six months to meet the residence requirement.

Thanks

 

[Msafiri]

CBSA agent will ask you about your absences...usual process if they want to take things further is they get you to list them down. They will also check stamps and their databases to include pulling flight manifests and border entries/ exits (CBSA now track land exits). If need be they can ask for pay stubs and employer details and they can call to verify....they do this for a living and will smell any bravo sierra pretty quick its whether they want to do anything about it.

A PR couple showed up at Dorval Airport in Montreal after several years of absence pretending to be back from a 2 week vacation....too bad they didn't know how to get from work to home for having lived all their 5 years in Montreal...CBSA busted them and they received 100K plus fines and a nice removal order just to sweeten things!