May i ask you something about passport sent to CIC?You're very welcome! And all the best!
i have few doubts though i have sent that
Landing Experience - 17th Jan 2019 - Flagpoling - Lewiston Bridge - Took just 20 mins to become a PR
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i have few doubts though i have sent that
Is it required to give the expired PGWP or not? I am only thinking of bringing Passport and COPR.
Hi All!
All the best if you are still waiting for PPR and Congratulations if you have received yours.
I received my passport on 15th January and decided to do landing by scheduling a landing interview, but by looking at the timelines it was taking approximately 2 weeks from requesting to 'schedule an interview' to the actual schedule date. So, to curtail that timing, I and my dependent decided to flagpole on 17th Jan. We drove to Lewiston Bridge (Niagara-on-the-Lakes) and reached around 2:00 PM, we reached the US bridge. The US officer asked us "What is the purpose of travel?". We said "We want to flagpole to confirm our PR for Canada". She asked us for our passports, did something on her computer and asked us to drive to another officer just 80 meters away from our car and get the flagpole document. We drove there (didn't get out of the car even once), he gave us a paper saying reason to enter - 'FLAGPOLE'. This in total took just 6-7 minutes. We took that and took a U-turn towards Canada's border. There again we were stopped at the checkpoint and the Canadian officer asked, "when did you go to US?" and took our passports. We answered, "Few minutes ago.". She asked all sorts of questions, "do you have any duty free stuff?", "any groceries?", "any alcohol or cannabis?" etc. This must be a standard procedure. To all these questions, our answer was NO. She then returned our passports with a yellow paper and asked us to park and go to Canada Immigration office just 50 meters from the checkpoint.
We went inside and there was just one guy in waiting area. We went to counter and told the officer that we are here for our landing and the officer asked for our yellow document, flagpole document and of course passports (not the COPR documents, yet) and asked us to wait. In next 2-3 minutes another officer called us and took our COPRs. He asked us to put our address and phone number and made us sign our respective COPR and asked us to wait. He called us again after a minute and congratulated us on becoming Canadian PR. Stapled our copy of COPR and gave some standard instructions about "not leaving the country" etc. He asked for our WPs and shredded them, as they were no longer valid.
This entire process, excluding the drive from Toronto to Lewiston bridge LOL, took 20 minutes max. We became PR, after such a long wait (from AOR till yesterday).
PS - We didn't have a US visa at all.
Hope this would be helpful for you all!
Thanks!
An addition to this!
PR card received : 11th March 2019
Did not you note down the tracking number while purchasing the return envelope from Canada post? If not, CIC customer care guys will be able to provide it, but its very long wait call.
That will be really painful. I had similar experience with my TRV last year, but luckily CIC helped me in providing the tracking number from the return envelope.
oh. Hopefully i will get it by Monday. Passport got printed. Return tracking number will be generated in system when they will dispatch from there. only then cic agent can see and tell me.
followed this same guide, went today but system was down, waited 4 hours lol.
but atleast it's over!
but atleast it's over!