MamaGoose wrote:
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.pdf
Specifically 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
I don't think those documents say what you said in your original quote. However, they DO say that if you enter the US and say you're staying for (say) 180 days but return to canada for two weeks, you cannot add two weeks to the 180 days to get 194 days.
