Physical Presence calculator - USA visit effects

[iamroth]

I have visited USA on and off for last couple of years. None of these visits were work related. Duration on avg 2/3 days (maybe even less).

My physical presence calculator has 3 pages. Is that bad thing? Even though there is nothing I can do. This is my travel history.

How many pages do you guys got?

Have you noticed any delay with more in and out of Canada travel?

 

[btbt]

I have visited USA on and off for last couple of years. None of these visits were work related. Duration on avg 2/3 days (maybe even less).

My physical presence calculator has 3 pages. Is that bad thing? Even though there is nothing I can do. This is my travel history.

How many pages do you guys got?

Have you noticed any delay with more in and out of Canada travel?

We don't exactly know what triggers closer scrutiny, but many short trips to the US aren't uncommon (many people who live near the border go for shopping trips etc) so seem unlikely to be a big issue, assuming no other factors are in play.

An inaccurate or incomplete list of travels is a problem, so do make sure your list is complete and accurate (see https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/us-citizen-canadian-pr-applying-for-canadian-citizenship.546488/#post-6763418 for a more extensive discussion).

 

[hfinkel]

My Physical Presence Calculator report was over 12 pages long.
I don't think that is a bad thing.
It might explain the week or two delay at every or certain steps of the process.
But, in the end, it is all moving forward.

I wouldn't worry at all.

 

[robinhood_1984]

Currently my physical presence calculator sits at 273 crossings in to the USA (I'm a truck driver) and runs at 17 pages. Thankfully most of my trips are quite short so despite that many crossings, I still have 1409 days of physical presence in my 5 year eligibility period.

 

[2_of_5]

My physical presence calculator was huge, with over two hundred short trips to the US. I had my test and interview last week, and the officer just asked me a few cursory questions about my trips. I explained that I would occasionally work in our US office for part of a day, and that my son lived there and I would visit him and go shopping. I showed her I had a notebook with all my trips listed, but she didn't want to look at it. She said she was satisfied with everything and had no concerns.

 

[robinhood_1984]

My physical presence calculator was huge, with over two hundred short trips to the US. I had my test and interview last week, and the officer just asked me a few cursory questions about my trips. I explained that I would occasionally work in our US office for part of a day, and that my son lived there and I would visit him and go shopping. I showed her I had a notebook with all my trips listed, but she didn't want to look at it. She said she was satisfied with everything and had no concerns.

That's good to know. Despite having over 1400 days presence, I am/was slightly worried about how they'd react to 270ish crossings, despite almost all of them being due to my job etc.

 

[Stef.]

I had a lot of travels, particularly mine were long. I even forgot to list a whole trip, but had no problems, because I had a good buffer.
So, make sure you have enough buffer days.

 

[keesio]

When I applied in 2013, I had about ~70 trips and ~300 days of absence - most of it to the US. It did not delay my application much (if at all). During the interview, the interviewer mentioned it briefly but that was it. Likely my reasons for the trips (visit my parents and sister in NY) were considered a reasonable ones.

It used to be in the past that non-US citizens with a lot of US travel that wnot required by work were more scrutinized. But I don't know if that is the case now

 

[links18]

If your declarations do not conflict with passport stamps or travel history records, you are probably OK.

 

[keesio]

If your declarations do not conflict with passport stamps or travel history records, you are probably OK.

Even if they do, but the conflicts are minimal and you have a decent buffer of days, you should be ok. I speak from personal experience

 

[nikhail]

reviving this old thread..
i have an extensive US travel history in last 3+ years of which, very high this year alone, close to 20 trips already but all short, even a day or 2 long. with that history, will there be any issue in my citizenship application?
Also, i just realized that, by mistake or ignorance, i haven't notified of one of my trips, which BTW was cancelled as in, the flight got cancelled and i returned from the airport but only after i had cleared the TSA at the airport. the return was within the same day, a couple hours later and i travelled to US the next day via road. so in such case, will IRCC consider that as a miss or be OK with it since there was no day spent outside Canada. i got my i94 too and which it shows Arrived in Canada but it never shows departed USA.

 

[Alalac]

reviving this old thread..
i have an extensive US travel history in last 3+ years of which, very high this year alone, close to 20 trips already but all short, even a day or 2 long. with that history, will there be any issue in my citizenship application?
Also, i just realized that, by mistake or ignorance, i haven't notified of one of my trips, which BTW was cancelled as in, the flight got cancelled and i returned from the airport but only after i had cleared the TSA at the airport. the return was within the same day, a couple hours later and i travelled to US the next day via road. so in such case, will IRCC consider that as a miss or be OK with it since there was no day spent outside Canada. i got my i94 too and which it shows Arrived in Canada but it never shows departed USA.

I would wait for them to contact you. They can easily verify that information and they will. They'll ask you more information later.