Thanks for your reply!
Samoinp talks about Canada visa. You cant use the visitor visa for soft landing. Soft landing is nothing but gaining your PR status hence you need to use your PR visa(one time entry validity).
Oh, ok, got it! By the way, within many months of getting my PR can I do my soft and/or final landing? For e.g., if I get it in Feb., can I wait until July to go?
When your Canada PR is approved you will get two things. One is a confirmation of PR document (COPR) and secondly an IM1 Visa (stamp) in your passport. This IM1 Visa is a single entry visa. You must enter Canada as a permanent resident before this visa expires. It will expire 1 year after your medical exam date. This entry as PR is called as landing. After you land, if you leave within a short period planning to return permanently later, then it is called as soft landing. After initial landing, you have 3 years to make the permanent move (because you need to maintain residency of 2 years within any 5 year period).
Ok! Thanks for clarifying - this makes me feel much better about planning my move! Thanks, everyone.
BTW, if you do leave a gap of 7 or more days between soft landing and final move, you could import new goods worth 800 without any import tax (on your final move). Make sure to bring your follow up goods for your initial landing. Customs check it at your soft landing, this is used for your final move (with all goods).
I think if one lands without the intention of settling, they get classified as 'visitor' as opposed to settler which implies that they could take anything that they want in addition to the things mentioned in GTF when moving later. Might work if one is moving quite later after soft landing
Yeah, soft landing changes visitor to resident and then all resident laws are applicable. Anyways, keep an eye on the custom forms that you get at soft landing. It should give you the updated limits.
