A departure order is the mild one, and it lets you return later with no special permission, but only if you handle it properly. You have 30 days from the day the order becomes enforceable to confirm your departure with an officer, get a certificate of departure, and actually leave. Miss that and it converts on its own into a deportation order, which bars you indefinitely without written authorization. The 30 days pause while you are detained or while the removal is stayed.
(1)For the purposes of subsection 52(1) of the Act, an enforced departure order is a circumstance in which the foreign national is exempt from the requirement to obtain an authorization in order to return to Canada.
(2)A foreign national who is issued a departure order must meet the requirements set out in paragraphs 240(1)(a) to (c) within 30 days after the order becomes enforceable, failing which the departure order becomes a deportation order.
(3)If the foreign national is detained within the 30-day period or the removal order against them is stayed, the 30-day period is suspended until the foreign national’s release or the removal order becomes enforceable.