Hi Rizmayo and other forum members, I need your help:
Our COPR was issued in March but was lost, we finally got a new one a week ago and it expires in August. We live in the US. Two months is not enough for my wife to organize herself, pack everything, terminate our numerous obligations and move. For crying out loud, the movers in our area have a 3 month wait list!
Congrats on achieving this milestone, even if the circumstances are less then ideal.
So here are my questions:
-We plan to go there in three weeks, just land and tell them that our COPR was lost, we only received it last month and we need more time to gather our belongings. So we plan to go back in a week and come back to stay later. We will provide them with an address in Ontario for our PR cards to go to. Since we are from a visa exempt country we don't need a visa to come back. Can this be done? Or will they get mad at us for leaving after a week?
There are 2 parts to this question: 1) Landing and going back immediately is not a problem, as Canadian PR there is no restriction on your movement. There are residency requirements you need to meet for provincial services like health insurance, however you need not worry about it till you permanently move to Canada. 2) Will they get mad at you? The answer is yes
;D 2 things will happen (or rather not happen) if you disclose you are not moving permanently in this trip:
- They will not take your address in Canada for delivery of PR cards. This is not a problem, there is website link where you have to enter your Canadian address and you can do it the next day after landing, even if CBSA officer says no to you. PR cards will be delivered to that address without an issue.
- They will not stamp your form B4e: Goods to Follow . CBSA officer will tell you that you can get this done when you move permanently, however I am not sure if the same allowance will be made to you at that time, as it is customary for a newly landed immigrant. You will have to clarify this with CBSA.
-If it can be done, we will literally bring nothing with ourselves this time, but we wanted to prepare two B4 documents. One that includes all our furniture and belongings that will come with the movers later, and one B4 for the expensive things, like jewelry and other stuff we would bring with ourselves the next time we come to stay. Can this be done? Having two separate B4 docs of things that will come later, one for merchandise coming with movers and one for more expensive things coming with us?
Normally we prepare 1 set of form B4e for goods that are accompanied (at time of landing) and 1 set for goods to follow (will come with movers or you will bring at a later date). However I see no harm in preparing the forms the way you want to. The CBSA officer can always merge the lists by adding the items from the 2 forms on 1.
Please let me know, this has been very difficult on my family, we have waited 4 years now... Any advice you may have will be most welcome.
Thank you,
Cam1234