Record of days spent in Canada

[yanny]

Hello Leon,

Since I landed in 2009, I have travelled to Canada many times but often on exit my passport is not stamped. How can one keep track of the number of days I spent in Canada?

 

[Leon]

Hello Leon,

Since I landed in 2009, I have travelled to Canada many times but often on exit my passport is not stamped. How can one keep track of the number of days I spent in Canada?

It's up to you to keep track of that yourself.

However, you can get some help by ordering your CBSA exit/entry records, see http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/agency-agence/reports-rapports/pia-efvp/atip-aiprp/req-dem-priv-eng.html and you can also check if you can order similar info from other countries you have been travelling to.

For example, the US you can get here: https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/976/~/record-of-my-travel-in-and-out-of-the-united-states,-foia

 

[meyakanor]

I made a trip to Hong Kong last month, and was foolish enough to request mobile boarding pass, so I did not actually have a physical copy of the boarding pass.

The mobile boarding pass was issued about 24 hours before I boarded the plane, so I don't think it would be proof enough that I actually boarded the plane. Besides, it is now no longer available. How else can I prove beyond any doubt that I really boarded the flight from Toronto to Hong Kong at that particular date? Canadian immigration kept no records of exits, and my passport was not stamped for both exit and entry (though I am sure they had records of all my entries to Canada).

I spoke with the airline and they told me they could no longer re-issue the copy of the boarding pass, and I would have to contact the police or something to request the proof from flight manifest

Any ideas?

 

[Dejaavu]

Do you have an entry stamp into Hong Kong?

 

[Msafiri]

You should get your HK entry/exit records from the immigration department.

http://www.immd.gov.hk/en/faq/travel-records.html

 

[meyakanor]

Thanks for the replies, guys. I actually omitted the information that what I really did was initially make a trip to Indonesia (I'm a citizen of Indonesia), transiting via Hong Kong (hence 'Hong Kong trip'). I later on made the trip to Hong Kong (entry on September 20s), so my entry date to HK was much later, so this would not help in proving that I boarded the plane on September 3.

So yes, I do have an entry stamp while entering Jakarta, dated September 4 2013, and I boarded the plane from Toronto on September 3 (to Hong Kong, but they did not stamp my passport during during transit, nor they did any immigration check). Would the (online) ticket, proof of payment, and this entry stamp be enough to prove that I really boarded the plane on September 3 (would they be suspicious that I somehow 'made' the customs stamp a much later entry date, which I of course did not do)?

I wish I had a more definitive proof (such as medical records or something) that I was present in Canada on the third of September, but I don't I really shouldn't have asked for mobile boarding pass...