Missing Passport Stamp - Interview in on week - HELP

[Bigudi]

I frequently forgot to return my I-94, the last one was from an entry in June 1st, 2014 and returned it when I entered the US again on June 21st, 2015. Prior to that I had the same thing occurring in other years. It was never an issue to me, not for re-entering the US, and much less in my Canadian citizenship application.

Not necessarily.

OMG, MiriamT you make me want to hug you!!!! Thank you so much. I know I panic a lot (my wife always says that to me).
So, here is the question: do I leave the white document stapled in my passport for the interview? Or should I remove it and handle it only upon request?
THANK YOU!!!!

 

[MiriamT]

OMG, MiriamT you make me want to hug you!!!! Thank you so much. I know I panic a lot (my wife always says that to me).
So, here is the question: do I leave the white document stapled in my passport for the interview? Or should I remove it and handle it only upon request?
THANK YOU!!!!

Nah, no thank yous or hugs, it's $5 per perceptually helpful comments. Alternatively, I can be paid in chocolates, or books. Also, my birthday is coming up soon.

Honestly, I guess it's up to you. I would remove it (but save somewhere safe and return at the next border crossing whenever you're crossing again), but that's just me.

 

[Bigudi]

Nah, no thank yous or hugs, it's $5 per perceptually helpful comments. Alternatively, I can be paid in chocolates, or books. Also, my birthday is coming up soon.

Honestly, I guess it's up to you. I would remove it (but save somewhere safe and return at the next border crossing whenever you're crossing again), but that's just me.

That's what I am inclined to do.
Remove it and keep it safe. To keep it simple. And if the questioning goes that path, I can present the document.
Thanks a gain. I can focus on my studying again.

 

[Msafiri]

I frequently forgot to return my I-94, the last one was from an entry in June 1st, 2014 and returned it when I entered the US again on June 21st, 2015. Prior to that I had the same thing occurring in other years. It was never an issue to me, not for re-entering the US, and much less in my Canadian citizenship application.

Not necessarily.

Ditto I have multiple I-94Ws from my travels and it was never an issue but there is always a day you meet an officious CBP agent eh!! Nowadays the US/Canada Entry/Exit initiative has eased the issue of forgetting or not giving back the I-94/I-94W for border crossings.

 

[Bigudi]

Hello everybody!

Since I opened this thread, I think it is nice if I report what happened to me in case someone else comes here to seek for information.

I just got home from my test interview. Everything went fine. I will describe the experience here in case it can help someone else.

I arrived one hour earlier (downtown Montreal). Waited until the time of my test (9:15am) and a person invited us to form a line with the test invitation letter in hands.
We got into a classroom. We were about 60 people. We listened to the test instructions.
I asked if there would be any changes because of the recent elections and they answered that this current information will not be asked in the test.
When I see the questions I realized I was WAY overly prepared. I really studied a lot and made several quizzes. I finished the test in 10 minutes because I re-checked my answers twice. I am a man who panics a lot. And when I panic, I make stupid mistakes. So I took my sweet time to make sure I made no mistakes.
After that I moved to a different room.

It was a big room with many chairs. Everybody who finishes the test went to that room. In front of that room there were 4 big desks, each with a CO. They would call names and people would go for their interview. Nothing private. Everything very open and clear.
Some people to 1 or 2 minutes. Some people took 10 or 15. I guess it depends on how complicated is your case.

When the CO called me, he asked only for these documents: my Ids, my PR card, my passports and my landing confirmation.
He was very nice all the time. He informed me that I scored 20/20 in the test and congratulated me. He checked my Ids, told me to hold to the landing confirmation for the rest of my life being a Canadian or not and moved to very simples questions. What’s your date of birth? What’s your address? What’s your job? Very politely all the time.
I have two missing stamps on my passport. Never asked. I have a 10 month period unemployed. Never asked.

After I finished he said I should wait between 2 to 4 month for the convocation for the oath. I directly asked if I had passed the interview and he said: “Yes, of course. Yours is a very simple case”.

I thanked him, wished the best and left.

And that’s it. Now we play the waiting game... again.

Thank you guys very much, especially MirianT for calming me down about my missing stamps on my passport.