Does your us citizen passport get stamped when entering Canada?

Does a passport get stamped when flying from the US to Canada?

• I'm flying from the US to Canada and also flying around Canada from Toronto to Edmonton...I am an American citizen with an American passport..will they stamp my passport at all? Either in Canada or coming back to the US?

• Answer:

  Canada Border Services does not normally stamp the passports for American citizens entering Canada. I think they nromally do not do it for any citizen from a country that is part of the visa waiver program, but can't say for sure. All I can say is what I have seen at the airport when I returned from USA and saw various people ahead of me with American passports talking with the border official. I know that you can ask them if they could still stamp the passport if you really wanted to collect the stamps and keep track of the dates in your passport book. But I don't think they actually need to stamp it since it is all computerized now. Coming back to USA, your government (US Border Protection) will not stamp the passport book. You are a citizen of that country, and so there is no need to indicate WHEN you came into the country because you are allowed to stay indefinitely. There are certainly some countries where you may not want to have a stamp showing in your passport book. For example, never get a stamp from Cuba in your passport book if you plan to go to USA afterwards. Avoid going to Israel if your book was stamped from countries like Iran, or vice versa. Many countries are sensitive to the political situations in the world. For example, Cuba does not stamp your book, they insert an extra page/card and stamp that, and then it is taken out at the end of the trip.