joebedford wrote:
MamaGoose wrote:
The way I understand it is you are allowed 180 days (six months) in a rolling calendar year. That's immigration laws. If you return to Canada for less than 30 or 31 days during your trip, for immigration purposes that does not count as time in the U.S. Any less than that and they still consider it as time in the U.S. So for those people heading north for Christmas for a couple of weeks, it still counts as time in the U.S.
Please provide a reference for "it still counts as time in the U.S."
http://www.snowbirds.org/CSADownloads/csa_travel_guide_en.pdfSpecifically on this subject, page 20, "Time to Allow Between Each Trip".
This link also answers a lot of questions, and one can ask more in the comments section. It's a lot of reading, though, and pertains more to tax issues, but I still found it useful.
http://www.mnp.ca/en/media-centre/blog/2011/2/1/canadians-wintering-in-the-us
