Refugee Travel Document - Questions and Answers
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Recently travelled to Bermuda on RTD and PR card with no issues. Coming back to Canada had to wait in a separate room and the immigration officer just asked me if I returned to my home land and obviously I had not then I was free to go. Will this happen every time I travel out and return?
Depends on how close your home country is to Bermuda.I Believe they do that randomly as some people do go back to their home countries through neighbouring countries.
Thanks for your response, I’m from Africa and this was my first time using RTD.
If your home country is close to where you traveled to, yes they’ll keep asking and probing. They can go as far as checking your phones and bags.
Looking for some help... trying to complete the application form and want to clarify with you all successful applicants:
1. The form asked for if I visited another country since my entry to Canada. I came and gone a few times but I never travelled after putting in my refugee request - so should I answer no or are they asking for my complete travel history even before I applied for refugee status and the many times I entered Canada?
2. Did you all have a guarantor in the listed occupations that you know for more than 6 months or did you have to use the PPTC 326 Statutory Declaration in Lieu of a Guarantor? If so, what ID did you provide? I only have BC driver's licence and the Refugee Claimant Document as my ID. Is that okay? Has anyone tried?
Please help!! Thanks in advance!
1. The form asked for if I visited another country since my entry to Canada. I came and gone a few times but I never travelled after putting in my refugee request - so should I answer no or are they asking for my complete travel history even before I applied for refugee status and the many times I entered Canada?
2. Did you all have a guarantor in the listed occupations that you know for more than 6 months or did you have to use the PPTC 326 Statutory Declaration in Lieu of a Guarantor? If so, what ID did you provide? I only have BC driver's licence and the Refugee Claimant Document as my ID. Is that okay? Has anyone tried?
Please help!! Thanks in advance!
From my experience, yes the 'secondary screening'/going to the separate room at the airport will happen every time- but the questions they ask you will depend on the officer and it may not be the same questions every time.
I have an RTD since 2022, I have traveled outside of canada 5 times all of the locations are very far from my home country and only 1 officer asked me if I had been back to my home country. The others asked where I'm coming from, how long I went for and some other variation of that question.
1. In the application they ask for your date of entry to Canada- so this question would be based on the timeline since you declared entering Canada. I dont think it is related to when you applied for refugee status or that is not how I understand it
2. I had a guarantor, the firs one was my immigration lawyer and the second one was my family doctor
