Hello Friends,
Finally last Monday,16th Feb we landed in Canada
. And Canada welcomed us with a freezing cold of -32 degree. Anyways thought of sharing our wonderful smooth landing experience with you all. Flight landed at Toronto Pearson Airport at 3.00 PM and reached the Canadian Border Security counter at 3:10 PM. We had our customs declaration form filled with us from the flight and the Border Security Officer (Lady) asked only one question. "Is there any good following you?" and I answered "No, we have only the luggage which we have with us" , our surprise she updated something in the computer and stamped our passport( All together took less than 2-3 minutes). Then she asked us to go to the next counter which is the Immigration counter and one Immigration office welcomed us ( He was such a nice person and started talking to my 2.5 yrs little daughter and she also started talking to him non stop and he called his colleagues also and introduced to my daughter and that talk went for couple of minutes). After that he asked for our COPR& passport and I handover that to him and he entered some details in the computer and cross checked the details with us which is in the COPR and asked us to sign the document.He took the orginal COPR and returned the passport and copy of COPR to us ( this process took 10-15 min as he has to enter the details in the computer and do some documentation)Later he said that if we want to apply for SSN then there is representatives from Service Canada in this office and they can help us. We went to that counter and immediately the provided us with the SSN to us and said that there is no longer SSN card in canada and all we will be having is this SSN document(took around 10 min).Finally we came out of the immigration counter and collected our baggage and on the way there was a customs officer who asked for the customs declaration card and we handover it to him and he said we are good to go. Can out and took a taxi and went to the serviced apartment in Mississauga which we booked in advance and we reached there in Mississauga at 5:00 PM.
Long storry in short, it was a wonderful landing experience and all the Candian officers were so helpful and nice and well behaving. They welcomed us to Canada and made us comfortable and finished all the formalities within 30 minutes from the time of landing.
Thanks to all in this forum for the great help.
Now our CIC status changed to complete with the wording " Landed on Terminal 3 Toronto Pearson International Airport on 16th Feb and became Canadian Permanent Resident"
U guys r the inspiration, plus this forum is awesome and have got immeasurable help from it.....trying to give back in a small way..
