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| Subject: help!please |
the applicant has got PR visa just now,but her daughter(as dependent) is already in canada for abroad studying.does her daughter must leave canada and make a second landing? what should her daughter do?
Looking forward to your reply.
[25-11-2004,03:19]
karen |
Buffalo Shuffle (in reply to: help!please)
I´ve heard of people doing the Buffalo Shuffle. It means that people would drive across the the US border and do a re-entry to Canada, from Buffalo city in New York State. However, this is more applicable to people who are living in Toronto/GTA. That was five years ago. I don´t know the present condition. In the past, it was fairly easy to get US visa if you already living in Canada.
[25-11-2004,12:19]
Will |
(in reply to: help!please)
Depending on where your daughter lives you can drive down to the closed US border. Remember as your daughter is your dependent she should land after you. Please read the experience of a person who recently landed as PR:
I landed this morning at Peace Arch crossing in B.C. This is my experience:
I drove down to the border at about 8:30am. At the US border the immigration officer asked for my passport, asked me where I live (Vancouver) and where I´m going. I told him I´m turning around to land in Canada. He gave me an orange slip of paper and told me to park and go inside to immigration. On the slip he had written "flagpole".
Inside immigration I waited in line for about 10 minutes. The officer was quite nice and asked me why I´m turning around. I told him I´m landing in Canada as a permanent resident. He gave me a notice of refusal. I was not expecting this since I don´t need a visitor´s visa to the US and I asked him about this. He said this is just standard procedures and has nothing to do with if you have visitor´s visa to the US or not. I asked him specifically if this will affect future admissibility to the US. He said that it won´t.
So back out to the car and turning back towards the Canadian border. The Canadian officer asked where I came from and where I´m going. I told him I´m landing in Canada today and he asked me for passport and COPR. He asked if I have any goods with me or any goods that will be shipped at a later point. I said ´no´. I was given a slip of paper where it said I have no goods with me and I was told to park and go inside Canadian Immigration.
The lady the processed my case was very nice. She asked me for the refusal notice from the US, my passport and COPR. She asked if I had verified the information on CORP. She asked me specifically if I have any dependents (I don´t) and then she made me initial that on the COPR. I was asked if I have cash with me and I said I don´t but I have proof of funds in a Canadian bank. However, she never asked to see the proof!
I did not have a job offer that qualified under the provisions to get points for arranged employment when I applied as a skilled worker,(but I do have a job now) so it suprised me to see that she left the portion about financial funds on COPR blank and that she never asked me to see proof of funds!
She asked what address I want my PR card sent to and then made me sign CORP.
After immigration I went to Customs and gave the Customs guy the slip I had gotten from the officer at the border. He just confirmed that I don´t have goods coming at a later point and that was it. Customs took about 15 seconds...
I went back to my car and drove into Canada as a Permanent Resident!
Posted - November 24 2004
[25-11-2004,15:46]
Anonymous |
:) (in reply to: help!please)
thank you very much to both of you
[25-11-2004,23:12]
karen |
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