Bringing cash money to Canada

[Adnan34]

Hi Seniors, Travelers/returning Canadian from abroad to Canada can bring less than 10,000 CAD without declaring to custom. My question is "what will be the limit if more than one family members are travelling all together? Is the limit will remain same or it will be multiplied based on the number of family members?
Appreciate your response in advance!!

 

[narende]

Hi Adnan34,

I do not know the exact answer of this question but let me share my experience about it. I and my mother came from our home country to Toronto keeping about $14000 cash. The officers at the airport asked how much money we have at that time and we said "We have 14000 cash now", and they did not say or do anything.

 

[Adnan34]

Hi narende, Thank you for sharing your experience. I will wait for more friends response.

 

[AMJ]

Hi Seniors, Travelers/returning Canadian from abroad to Canada can bring less than 10,000 CAD without declaring to custom. My question is "what will be the limit if more than one family members are travelling all together? Is the limit will remain same or it will be multiplied based on the number of family members?

My experience: Bring in as much as Cash as you have but declare it at the port of entry.

 

[Adnan34]

Thank you AMJ, I just wanted to know that each person has own limit or it is <10000 CAD for all members WITHOUT DECLARING.

 

[ar_fabrics]

Per person limit is 10000 CAD.

 

[Alurra71]

Per person limit is 10000 CAD.

The non declared per person limit is 10000 CAD. So long as you DECLARE above 10000 CAD you can bring however much cash you want. If you want to bring 12304982305897, you can, so long as you declare everything above the intitial 10k

 

[Adnan34]

Dear Alurra71,
Thanks for your reply. Earlier I heard from some one that if you are travelling with family (i.e. four members) then your limit is <10,000 CAD without declaration. There are four spaces in declaration card and if you are using all four spaces still you need to declare above 10,000 CAD as per Declaration card requirement. Suppose we have 39500 CAD for family of four travelling together do we need to declare?

 

[Alurra71]

Dear Alurra71,
Thanks for your reply. Earlier I heard from some one that if you are travelling with family (i.e. four members) then your limit is <10,000 CAD without declaration. There are four spaces in declaration card and if you are using all four spaces still you need to declare above 10,000 CAD as per Declaration card requirement. Suppose we have 39500 CAD for family of four travelling together do we need to declare?

I would declare it just to be on the safe side. There is nothing special about making the declaration and it won't cause any extra issues. The only thing it will do is ensure that if they DO pull you to secondary for something else that you won't also be in trouble for not declaring it. There is absolutely not harm in declaring it.

 

[on-hold]

Just a note -- Canadian banks do NOT like receiving large cash deposits, especially from foreign people. It's a stupid twitch of theirs, because any normal immigrant travels with cash, you need it when you land: and before you land, you don't have a bank account to transfer money electronically . . . if you deposit a check, it takes a month (two weeks longer than in 1990?!!) to clear . . . Anyway, when you bring your cash, try to have some kind of documentation of what it's from -- a land sale, a receipt from the bank you withdrew it from, things like that. It makes everyone happier . . .

Also, here are two scenarios, one is more suspicious than the other (of course, both are legal):

A family of immigrants is landing, the husband declares he is carrying $45,000, has a receipt to show where it comes from (see above). Explains it's for getting established.

A family of immigrants is landing, the husband, wife, and three kids are each carrying $9,000 for some weird reason. Everyone insists the money belongs to the kids.