I am getting really nervous. In 3 days I will be driving up to stay with my girlfriend in the Vancouver area, with plans to marry her soon and apply for permanent residency. It's been suggested not to say that I plan to say that I'm staying for 6 months or that I'm planning to marry my girlfriend and stay there. Based on these suggestions, I will tell the border patrol that I will be staying for about 6 weeks. So, I know that I need to pack accordingly. But since I really am planning to stay, I've been having a really hard time trying to decide what to take and what might make the border patrol to be suspicious and deny my entry. The ones I'm really struggling with is personal things like letters, cards, momento items, important papers, etc. Maybe I can have those types of things shipped to me later, but I'm just having so much anxiety about "should I take this?" "Should I not?" Any tips? If it doesn't look suspicious in my car (although I am bringing my cat and small dog, but I plan to just tell them that I don't have someone who can watch them for 6 weeks), how likely is it that they'll search my car after telling them that I plan to stay that long? Thanks!