Foreign Trips Question before filling N400

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DEB

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One of my trip within last 5 years was to Canada by car for couple of days from US. I checked my passport and could not find any stamping by any immigration officer. Is it normal ? Do I have to specify this trip in N-400 form ?

My another trip was to India via UK. I got a transit visa in Hithrow airport for one day and stayed in a hotel in London. Do I have to specify that I visited UK also in N-400 form along with India for this trip ?

Let me know.

Thanks.
 
DEB said:
One of my trip within last 5 years was to Canada by car for couple of days from US. I checked my passport and could not find any stamping by any immigration officer. Is it normal ? Do I have to specify this trip in N-400 form ?

My another trip was to India via UK. I got a transit visa in Hithrow airport for one day and stayed in a hotel in London. Do I have to specify that I visited UK also in N-400 form along with India for this trip ?

Let me know.

Thanks.
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It is completely normal to not have any stamps in your passport for a trip to Canada. They do not usually stamp your passport, nor do the Americans (in most cases) stamp it on the way back from Canada. I have found this to be true for both land, sea and air crossings. Same thing for Mexico if you cross by land - no stamp into Mexico or back into the US.

If your trip to Canada was longer than 24 hours then you do need to declare it on the N-400 form. If you do not remember the exact dates, you can just approximate and give the approximate duration.

As for your trip to India via Heathrow, I would count it all as one trip from a duration outside the US perspective (meaning that you count all the days you were in India and in England and list them on the form as one trip) but mention on the N-400 in the "countries visited" column that you were in both those countries for that one trip.
 
Think of us Canadians having to fill out the N-400 without benefit of passport stamps. Almost all of my international travel was to Canada. It was an "interesting" exercise
 
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