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truedream15

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Feb 14, 2015
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Can anyone let me know how long it takes to get the US boarder entry/exit report after applying on FOIA online? Thanks!
 
truedream15 said:
Can anyone let me know how long it takes to get the US boarder entry/exit report after applying on FOIA online? Thanks!

Do a search on this forum for "FOIA" and you will find many threads with the answer.

http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/-t265606.0.html
http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/-t218628.0.html
http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/-t188324.0.html
http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/-t196022.0.html
http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/response-from-cbp-t263859.0.html (I replied to this one with the time it took to receive mine)
 
Thank you. I read some threads-very helpful. I submitted my request by registering an account. So the records will be sent by email or regular mail?

eltorpe said:
Do a search on this forum for "FOIA" and you will find many threads with the answer.

(I replied to this one with the time it took to receive mine)
 
truedream15 said:
Thank you. I read some threads-very helpful. I submitted my request by registering an account. So the records will be sent by email or regular mail?

If you provided an e-mail address, I believe you will receive your records by e-mail. I did not provide an e-mail address so I received my records by regular mail.
 
truedream15 said:
Can anyone let me know how long it takes to get the US boarder entry/exit report after applying on FOIA online? Thanks!

I heard the I-94 report is sufficient to prove US Entry/Exit. The I-94 report can be obtained instantly online. No need for FOIA.
 
I submitted FOIA request but it was denied after two months, since I did not provided adequate identifying personal information. In those two months, I called FOIA and after several conversations with different departments, I was finally able to navigate to a FOIA representative. She told me that FOIA requests can be fulfilled within 2 months to 2 years (or may be more), depending on your case and availability of records and various port of entries to the US.

I did not waited for receiving response from FOIA, and I opened a ticket with CBSA to get entry exit records between Canada and the US. I received those records in about 5 weeks. When I was sending those records to CIC, I also attached I-94 records and all itineraries for which more than 24 hours were spent outside Canada, and it worked.
 
Very strange, I sumbitted passport copies as supporting document, got the report within a month. Very straightforward.
 
The time varies. One time we requested entries and it took 30 days, the next time about 60 days. A friend (a U.S. citizen) is up to 82 days now without getting his report.