My mother-in-law from Spain came to stay with us in Canada for five weeks earlier this year (Spanish passport). Her passport was stamped at immigration on the way into Canada. However, on the way out, you just check your bags and then go through security and onto the plane. There is no where to have your passport stamped on the way out (not like in the Dominican when they stamp you on the way out when you hand in your tourist card).
The form that you have to hand back in the U.S. is when you require a “Visa” to enter the country. For example, my husband, who is Dominican, has a Dominican passport and has a 10 year U.S. Visa in his Dominican passport. So, when we cross the border, even though he has a Visa to enter, he still has to fill out a form to say he has actually entered and they staple it to his passport and it’s good for six months I believe. We always hand it back in when we leave either at the airport to the boarding agent who takes your ticket when you get on the plane or at the land border crossing to the agent who asks you the questions in your car. However, we have been told that if we were to be entering again within the six-month allotment, we can keep it until the next trip so that we don’t have to get out of our car and fill in the form every time. We always hand it in just in case we don’t go again within six months so he won’t have a problem entering in the future in case they think he never left.
So, that being said, I don’t know whether Canada also has those forms, but in any event they only apply if you require a Visa to enter Canada in the first place (i.e. a Visitor’s Visa, etc.) so with a European passport you have nothing to worry about.
Hope that helps.
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