"Time Outside the United States" on application

ppopp

Registered Users (C)
Hi all -

I'll soon be filing my N-400, and I have a question about the application. How picky are they about the "Time Outside the United States" section? I satisfy all of the requirements for days in residence, etc, by a wide margin, but I'm not sure of my ability to correctly account for 100% of my trips outside the US during the past 5 years. I have traveled to Mexico, Costa Rica, and the UK a number of times, and should have those trips documented in my passport, but I'm a Canadian citizen and I have traveled to Canada 8 or 10 times, usually for a week or less per trip, in the past 5 years, and few or none of these trips are documented in my passport. I could guess at the travel dates and durations, but I'll surely get most of these wrong.

I assume there is an electronic record of my entries, so any errors I make in documenting my travel will surely be noticed. Is there a way to declare in advance that I am not sure of the exact dates of the travel?
 
I assume there is an electronic record of my entries, so any errors I make in documenting my travel will surely be noticed. Is there a way to declare in advance that I am not sure of the exact dates of the travel?

I think you add a footnote under the trip tables: You add a star to every
trip whose departure and return you don't remmeber exactly and write
a star with a footnote at the bottom:"Dear USCIS: these are my best guess
please dig into your electronic record and correct me"
 
I think you add a footnote under the trip tables: You add a star to every
trip whose departure and return you don't remmeber exactly and write
a star with a footnote at the bottom:"Dear USCIS: these are my best guess
please dig into your electronic record and correct me"

I recommend the same except keep the verbiage simple -
OK to say these are your best guesses, provide a reason on why do not recall.
Not OK to say please dig into your records and correct me. It just did not sound right, don't know why.
 
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