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    Transfer money to canada

    Why taking that much cash on a plane? If you declare the money and you can prove it is yours and from where it came, you are save I think. When I came to Canada 2 years ago, I had less then 1000$ on me and transferred the rest to my Canadian account. I have opened two days, after I have arrived...
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    Airport interview

    Do you realize that the distance between Montreal and Winnipeg is more then 2200 km?
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    Missing entry stamp in passport while entering Canada.

    CBSA don't stamp all passports at airports (like Vancouver) with inspection kiosks anymore. Like BS65 said, visitors can stay up to 6 months when they don't have a departure date stamp in their passport. You can read it in the next link from CBSA...
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    High BP and moderately abnormal ECG

    I don't know about the ECG, but taking medicines for high blood pressure wasn't an issue for me. During my medical a few years ago, they asked me what medicines I was taking and since I'm in Canada, I just continue taking them prescribed by a Canadian doctor.
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    Application just returned.. what now?

    My application came back too, 2 years ago because I forgot to add additional family members. So I've added my parents, brother, his wife, my nephew, my sister and her husband. I think it is necessary for a background check later on. I didn't have added my family members first, because I was...
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    Netherlands or Canada to immigrate?

    I don't see how you ever can be integrated if you don't want to learn the local language?
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    Passport issues

    The passport date is only an issue for COPR. If your passport expires earlier than your medicals, then the date on your COPR is your passport date. When you're landed and became PR, the date on your passport isn't important anymore is you stay in Canada.
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    Changing passport right after landing?

    I was in the same situation as you last year. I've landed with my old passport that only was valid for less than 2 months after I've landed and renewed my passport in Canada 2.5 months later after it was expired 3 weeks. I only had to travel from Calgary to Montreal because I had to leave my...
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    Landing Questions Asked by Immigration Officer

    First fill in the customs form on the plane as far as possible. I filled in everything on the visitor part, except the address and how many days I would stay in Canada. Present it to the customs officer when you arrive ant tell him that you (or your husband in this case) that you have a COPR...
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    Paris Office Timeline

    My processing time was between 2 and 3 months after my file was transferred to Paris. My file was transferred in November 2015 to Paris and my application was started on November 23 2015 and I was approved on January 25 2016. I'm a Belgian citizen and my wife is Canadian.
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    Simple question

    My medicals would have been expired 1 month after my pasport expired. I never have heard they entend the medicals, but maybe someone else knows someone with extended medicals.
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    Simple question

    For me the expiring date was the expiring date of my pasport and was 5 months after I've got my copr. I thought there would come a pasport request for a visa so I was waiting till there was A pasport request that I never got. I landed in Canada about 2 months before my pasport expired and...
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    Simple question

    I'm visa exempt too and I just got my copr in the mail a few days after I got DM. There was a letter inclueded with the copr that explained that who is visa exempt don't need a visa and that there is no need for a pasport request. My VO was Paris and I'm Belgian.
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    Waiting for PR CARD - 2015 / 2016

    I landed on May 3 and I got my PR Card today in Calgary.
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    Can I go back to my home country for a month or two after landing?

    I'm Belgian and my VO was Paris. I've got my COPR after 4.5 Months on the end of January this year. I also had to stay 3 months on my work after I decided to quit. So I came on May 3 to Canada. If there are no issues or if you only have lived in Germany, that would make your background check...
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    landing interview questions

    I have landed early May. I told the customs/immigration officer I had a COPR with me. He has sendet me to an immigration office and there was asked me if the addres is still the same as on the COPR, what I have with me on arrival and if I have goods to follow. I also had to sign the COPR and...
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    Getting into Canada after marriage, before sponsorship

    I would recommend an outland application too. I'm also Belgian and married with a Canadian woman and our application took 4.5 months after the application was received. Best regards, Peter
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    Paris office time of process

    Hello Dong, I'm Belgian and for me the processing time was 4 months and a half month to complete the whole application. The application from my wife was received on september 11 2015. Her application as sponsor was approved on the end of October and was send to Paris on November 29 2015 and I...
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    Please help I'm panicking about my medical

    When I've went for my medical, they took an x-Ray of my lungs, urine test, blood test, measure my height and weight and took my blood pressure. Also there was asked which medicines I take dayly and asked me if I have had surgery in my live before. They haven't asked for a kind of personnel...
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    Return ticket or one way?

    I thought that airlines has to give information in advance about the passenger to Canada like pasport information, who paid the ticket and also thought itenary of the ticket. I'm not 100 procent sure about what information they need, but to be save I have booked for myself a one way ticket to...