We landed from US today, via Vancouver. I will describe our unpleasant experience and ask you to share similar experiences.
First I would like to mention that we are US citizens.
My wife and I arrived to the Canadian border and told the guy in the booth that we intended to land. He asked for how long will we be in Canada, we said two weeks and then back to California to get our stuff to Canada. Then he asked what we did for living. He gave us a paper and sent us to the office.
In the office we met a lady who from the first moment was very unfriendly. She also asked us what we did for living, if we had property in California and why we wanted to move to Canada. She asked if we wanted to import anything and when she learned from us that we didn't have car titles, she said that maybe we should return and come back prepared for importing. I told her that the visas were close to expiration and we will just give up importing the car. All this time she was very unfriendly and intimidating and implying that something's not right with our landing. She even told us at one point that it seems that we're playing games.
We filled out a form for goods that we will bring later and gave it to her. She asked us to sign the landing papers and said that right now we are residents but at the same time tourists and we will only get a resident card when we move, have bills in Canada, give up our California driver license and get a Canadian driver license. She repeated that a few times and was very, very intimidating. I tried to ask her what was I supposed to do about applying for a resident card and again she began repeating that I will have to show up in front of an immigration officer at the immigration office and prove that I moved to Canada and then apply for the card. She was very much implying that we’re not genuine immigrants, although I really do not understand what kind of game she believes we play.
To finish my dissertation, we entered Canada as residents, but without a PR card application done. We will go to a local office for the SIN card. However, we do not know how getting a residence card will work now since we haven’t heard of a similar experience so far. I thought the first PR card was paid for and would be received automatically by landing.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Robert
First I would like to mention that we are US citizens.
My wife and I arrived to the Canadian border and told the guy in the booth that we intended to land. He asked for how long will we be in Canada, we said two weeks and then back to California to get our stuff to Canada. Then he asked what we did for living. He gave us a paper and sent us to the office.
In the office we met a lady who from the first moment was very unfriendly. She also asked us what we did for living, if we had property in California and why we wanted to move to Canada. She asked if we wanted to import anything and when she learned from us that we didn't have car titles, she said that maybe we should return and come back prepared for importing. I told her that the visas were close to expiration and we will just give up importing the car. All this time she was very unfriendly and intimidating and implying that something's not right with our landing. She even told us at one point that it seems that we're playing games.
We filled out a form for goods that we will bring later and gave it to her. She asked us to sign the landing papers and said that right now we are residents but at the same time tourists and we will only get a resident card when we move, have bills in Canada, give up our California driver license and get a Canadian driver license. She repeated that a few times and was very, very intimidating. I tried to ask her what was I supposed to do about applying for a resident card and again she began repeating that I will have to show up in front of an immigration officer at the immigration office and prove that I moved to Canada and then apply for the card. She was very much implying that we’re not genuine immigrants, although I really do not understand what kind of game she believes we play.
To finish my dissertation, we entered Canada as residents, but without a PR card application done. We will go to a local office for the SIN card. However, we do not know how getting a residence card will work now since we haven’t heard of a similar experience so far. I thought the first PR card was paid for and would be received automatically by landing.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Robert
