niknike said:
Reiterating...can anyone who had traveled by AIR (for short term) assist in below queries please:
Friends, please share your thoughts/suggestions (traveling to Canada by AIR for landing formality, for a week):
(1) During Landing, did Immigration/Customs officer questions about "Duration of our stay in Canada"? If we say- 1 week(or couple of days), then will it cause any issue for our PR Card Application? (I have heard that we should not mentioned if we are going for few days as it gives them impression that we are defeating PR purpose and they might not apply PR application until our next trip- is it TRUE? Shocked) How to tackle such situation?
(2) In the Customs Embarkation/Declaration Card(which we ll get in plane), are we fall under : Part B. Visitors to Canada, or Part C."Residents of Canada" ? Embarrassed
(3) If we have to fill, Part B. Visitors to Canada in the Declaration Card in the "Duration of stay in Canada" section, shall we write the exact "No. of days" we are planning to stay, or
it has to match the same duration which we will say to Immigration/Customs officer at landing, as per question 1 above?
Thanks!!
1) here's my two cents:
i) I don't think you will be asked that question - as a landed immigrant (i.e. how many days you plan to stay in Canada), unless you bring
it up voluntarily by yourself. Be smart, and answer wisely without revealing too much information. I was
not asked this question when i
landed.
ii) there's nothing to worry about anyway, what you are doing is very common - lots of people don't move permanently upon first landing and
don't stay until their pr card arrives, worst case scenario would be to apply for a travel document at your visa office in order to return.
which shouldn't be an issue as you will have your landing papers and you have "officially landed".
2) the same issue was discussed in previous threads, seems there isn't any right or wrong answer...
http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/customs-declaration-card-required-to-be-filled-by-newly-landed-immigrant-t70109.0.html
http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/filling-out-customs-declaration-card-t174821.0.html