Visitor record & exit / re-entry during stay

[xoy74]

Hello everyone.
A friend who is visiting Canada wants to stay a little longer than 6 moths. He has a multiple entry visa.
When he entered Canada, the officer asked him how long he's staying and my friend gave the date when he wanted to leave, which was more than 6 months from the entry date. The officer issued him a visitor record that stated he must leave before the 6 months were over.
Approx 4 months into his stay, he left Canada for about 8 days (vacation to Caribbean) and when he came back, his passport was stamped.
My question is, does that re-entry "reset" the 6 month stay allowance ?
He's concerned that the date stated in the visitor record is approaching (in a couple weeks or so) and he will have to leave the country.

 

[Jalex23]

My question is, does that re-entry "reset" the 6 month stay allowance ?

Yes

He's concerned that the date stated in the visitor record is approaching (in a couple weeks or so) and he will have to leave the country.

Nothing to worry about.

 

[xoy74]

Thanks very much for the reply !

 

[sokosan]

A question then of the opposite case.

My girlfriend came to Canada on Oct. 15th (plain stamp with no exit date, so 6 months - Apr. 15th).

At the end of February we went to Mexico for 2 weeks and when we came back, the border officer DID NOT stamp her passport. He stamped her customs declaration card (obviously) with the re-entry date of Mar. 3rd, but not her passport.

My understanding of this previously was that, if you re-enter from a third country (i.e. not your country of residence) you visited directly from Canada without getting your passport stamped again, that is the same as if you never left Canada in the first place, i.e. CIC counts the that time as if you were in Canada, and your exit date is counted from your first (stamped) entry date. Meaning, she must leave by Apr. 15th (or apply to extend by Mar. 15th).

She wants to extend her stay by a couple of months, but now, after reading the extension instructions on the CIC website, this really confused me:

Extend your stay in Canada as a visitor
If you want to extend your stay in Canada, you must apply to do so. Check your temporary resident status to make sure you apply before the expiry date. This will be on your study or work permit, the stamp in your passport or, if you do not have a stamp in your passport, 6 months from the day you entered Canada. You should apply 30 days before your status expires to:

This paragraphs seems to refer to an exit (expiry) date stamped in the passport. She doesn't have that (neither for her October entry, neither for her March entry). So this could be interpreted as - if you don't have an expiry date specified, it's 6 months from when you entered - and she last entered on March 3rd.

However, reading from this forum (and based on my earlier understanding of reading the CIC website), this is not true, it's really 6 months from the most recent stamped entry date. Correct? The above paragraph does not mention "stamps in your passport without an expiry date specified", it just mentions a stamp (assuming it must have an expiry date) and no stamp (which is even more perplexing, how does one enter Canada as a visitor the first time without getting one's passport stamped?).

Does that mean that she really now has 6 months from Mar. 3rd, or is the CIC website being unclear and unrigorous as usual?

I'm asking this because I want to avoid any confusion with CIC when she applies for an extension, as they know she left Canada on Feb. 17th to go to Mexico and returned Mar. 3rd (I've been told here they get the information on passengers from airlines, but apart from that, she has a Mexico entry stamp form Feb. 17th, and they have her customs declaration card from Mar. 3rd), for one, I want to avoid applying unnecessarily, for two, I don't want her request to extend her stay by e.g. 3 months to be construed as her wanting to stay until December instead of until July.

Thanks