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ts123

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I've travelled a lot. Some of these trips have been to multiple countries, e.g. 3 months split between Chile & Argentina, where I probably crossed the border 8 times. Bike touring in Europe through about 6 different EU countries, camping somewhere different every night.

Do I need to list every single time I've crossed a border?? I have no idea what dates are, I don't know where my old passport is and anything in Europe wouldn't be stamped anyway. Is it OK to just guess dates & explain in LOE?

What about time I've spent in NZ & Canada on working holiday & study visas? Should I list those as travel, or are they then my country of residence? What about day trips from Canada to the States? Transiting through the States where I've been stamped in but not actually left the airport?

I must have crossed about 150 borders in the last 10 years, the majority I don't have dates for. Not sure what to do about this.
 
ts123 said:
I've travelled a lot. Some of these trips have been to multiple countries, e.g. 3 months split between Chile & Argentina, where I probably crossed the border 8 times. Bike touring in Europe through about 6 different EU countries, camping somewhere different every night.

Do I need to list every single time I've crossed a border?? I have no idea what dates are, I don't know where my old passport is and anything in Europe wouldn't be stamped anyway. Is it OK to just guess dates & explain in LOE?

What about time I've spent in NZ & Canada on working holiday & study visas? Should I list those as travel, or are they then my country of residence? What about day trips from Canada to the States? Transiting through the States where I've been stamped in but not actually left the airport?

I must have crossed about 150 borders in the last 10 years, the majority I don't have dates for. Not sure what to do about this.

My 2 cents:
If you crossed the border of your home country or country of residence, you need to enter it. Even if the stay outside the border was just a part of the day, that should be entered too. If you visit your home country while you are in a different country on long term for either work or education, that needs to be entered too.

You basically need to for all stamps in your passport. If you dont have the passport, its going to be a hard time. Worst case, you can guess the dates with a variance of about 2 weeks.
 
I declared everything, however, I am Non-EU passport holder, so my passports were stamped every time I crossed a European Country...Try to remember the closest date...as do explain that in LoE. There were some stamps in my passport which have faded away! Thanks to via rules for Non-EU people, I use to have scanned passport documents in my mail all the time!

Also if you remember the month of travel, I don't think it should be an issue! Telle them in Letter of Explanation. I think CIC will anyhow lenient to EU people (Kidding)
 
ts123 said:
I've travelled a lot. Some of these trips have been to multiple countries, e.g. 3 months split between Chile & Argentina, where I probably crossed the border 8 times. Bike touring in Europe through about 6 different EU countries, camping somewhere different every night.

Do I need to list every single time I've crossed a border?? I have no idea what dates are, I don't know where my old passport is and anything in Europe wouldn't be stamped anyway. Is it OK to just guess dates & explain in LOE?

What about time I've spent in NZ & Canada on working holiday & study visas? Should I list those as travel, or are they then my country of residence? What about day trips from Canada to the States? Transiting through the States where I've been stamped in but not actually left the airport?

I must have crossed about 150 borders in the last 10 years, the majority I don't have dates for. Not sure what to do about this.

Try your best, if not with stamps, emails helped me a lot, and photos also on trips around Europe.
I got 120 entries in the travel history, it took me a couple of days to do it.
 
In my personal history, I entered travels that were on my last passport. Do i have to upload this old passport page with those immigration stamps as well??
 
I dont have many EU stamps in my passport. I had the dates in my email as I had kept the booking confirmation. I entered the dates diligently even though there are no stamps.
 
Navin1988 said:
In my personal history, I entered travels that were on my last passport. Do i have to upload this old passport page with those immigration stamps as well??

Yes, upload all of the stamped pages of old passport.
 
I have added my travel to travel history and not personal history.
 
xpressentry said:
I have added my travel to travel history and not personal history.

I guess that's correct. If not there would be only a personal history and not two separate.
 
chente said:
Try your best, if not with stamps, emails helped me a lot, and photos also on trips around Europe.
I got 120 entries in the travel history, it took me a couple of days to do it.

Do you enter everything in Travel history? It seems there is not enough slots. I have about 130 entries in the last 10 years but I can't really trace the road trip to USA from Canada because they never give an exit stamp.
 
Try your best, if not with stamps, emails helped me a lot, and photos also on trips around Europe.
I got 120 entries in the travel history, it took me a couple of days to do it.
Can u please guide me how u entered those travel dates in personal history
 
Can u please guide me how u entered those travel dates in personal history
Hey, I just added them on the LOE. Enter the most recent ones (20 or 30? I don't remember) and then on the LOE include all the rest in the same format. Travel dates are on the travel history, not on the personal one. The personal one is for work, internship, study, long trips...