Can I land at Pearson Airport or do I have to go to a border??

[Buffy2323]

HI all, I received my COPR today to my American address and it is being mailed to me in Toronto area hopefully by Thursday of this week. I am staying in Canda and all my goods will follow later. Does anyone know if I have to drive to a border to do my landing or can I just go to Pearson International and land there? All of my personal belongings are in storage in the USA and I don't plan to get those until I go back in December so it would just be me and my son walking into the airport with COPR in hand.

I was hoping I could save time by doing this and not driving 2 hours to the border. Also, I ahve to change my address with the Nexus office at Pearson so figured I could kill 2 birds with one stone.

Does anyone know if this is possible or do I have to flagpool??

Thanks in advance!!

 

[Rob_TO]

HI all, I received my COPR today to my American address and it is being mailed to me in Toronto area hopefully by Thursday of this week. I am staying in Canda and all my goods will follow later. Does anyone know if I have to drive to a border to do my landing or can I just go to Pearson International and land there? All of my personal belongings are in storage in the USA and I don't plan to get those until I go back in December so it would just be me and my son walking into the airport with COPR in hand.

I was hoping I could save time by doing this and not driving 2 hours to the border. Also, I ahve to change my address with the Nexus office at Pearson so figured I could kill 2 birds with one stone.

Does anyone know if this is possible or do I have to flagpool??

Thanks in advance!!

You can't flagpole like that. You need to physically go outside of Canada into another country, and then back into Canada again. That is why you need to do this at a US land border, since you would first go to to the US side to exit Canada, then "land" by returning to Canada.

If you are close to Pearson, Niagara Falls isn't that much further.

 

[Buffy2323]

You can't flagpole like that. You need to physically go outside of Canada into another country, and then back into Canada again. That is why you need to do this at a US land border, since you would first go to to the US side to exit Canada, then "land" by returning to Canada.

If you are close to Pearson, Niagara Falls isn't that much further.

Well shoot, I was hoping I could......Thanks for the help. It saved me a trip!!