Entering and exiting Canada with different travel documents

8/3/2016 12:29:16 AM

This is not an issue because there is no system yet. The current state of exit reporting in Canada is described here. While Canada does get reports of third-country nationals exiting via the land border, Canada and the US do not yet exchange information about their own citizens nor does Canada (officially) collect outbound air records. The only way for them to find an American has overstayed is to catch them in the country; not knowing when they went home is normal.

Note that the Canadian legislation to allow them to exchange citizen information at the land border and collect airline outbound passenger manifests is Bill C-21, which is currently making its way through parliament. I assume that after this passes we’ll eventually find out how they plan to reconcile the problem of the variety of WHTI documents Canadians and Americans can use for border crossings. For the moment, however, neither Canada nor the US has the information to positively determine when a citizen of the other country has overstayed.

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