Hello House.
Thank you all for your patient, I know many of you are wondering where is Aroms? LOL.... As promised below is my landing experience .
Our landing formalities was quite easy except for the queue because we have other airline that arrived almost the same time with us. We left Naija Jan 17th and landed at Toronto airport about 7pm the next day and proceeded to the Passport control and visa check (allot of queue). We then moved to immigration and this is where everybody needs to be sharp and alert because this is where they will check your COPR and ask about landing funds and maybe POF. I was ask if we have up to $10k or how much cash with us and I declared the amount with us just $800, no question of POF arose. I wasn't asked about POF but I had prepared for that by getting a copy of original bank statement from my bank before I left Naija. I advise you do same and get your statement or recent original fixed deposit certificate handy. Better to be stressed now but prepared than to be deported. A word is enough please.... You will be given a form in the plane, please complete the form with your Canada address. About 8:30pm we're done with the immigration and proceed to the Welcome To Canada stand, we couldn't do the SIN registration etc, because of our connecting flight to Saskatoon.
Next is baggage claim then customs. We had prepared our goods accompanying list, we don't have goods to follow list but the guy attending to us was not interested in goods accompanying. From here, we step out into Arrivals and Canada! ! Ensure you have your hosts phone numbers and full house address and that they know when exactly your flight is landing, Canada time. we arrived Air Canada and we're told we missed our flight to Saskatoon, they booked us for free for the next day 8:5am flight, we stayed at the airport because of our excess luggage's x 8, we arrived about 11am Saskatoon time, we completed our SIN reg. etc the following day at the Service Canada it was easy and stress free.
My accommodations arrangements goes like this. A friend was leaving here in Saskatoon, he was planning to move out to Regina because of his work, I asked him to retain the place for me in his name, sometimes getting a house outside Canada can be difficult sometimes and I'm coming with a family of four (4), beside the apartment is lovely around the Pinehouse drive. Yesterday we met the landlord and the apartment document is now in our name.
With various registrations out of the way, you now face accommodation and the almighty job search. We have couple of jobs interviews already, our kids have started school as well. Husbands, love thy wives and wives love thy husband because you're going to need each other now. for couples, most likely one person will actively seek work while the other will stay back to care for the home. If there are no kids, then you can both plunge into the job market. If you are single then you can hit the ground running.
Sorry to bother with the long gist. All in all, Canada is a beautiful place and the people are kind, willing to help and assist. I wish you the best ahead. God bless.
