Landing stopped at Peace Bridge

[Dimma]

I just took a U turn went to booth and then directed to CBSA office, Several people in this forum did same in peace bridge , Fort Erie,ON

 

[Dimma]

What happened exactly with you? Did they tell u that u r a permenant resident now? Did they take ur address and tell u that u will have ur pr in mail in 4-6 weeks? Landing is not just letting you in!!! How come u left before checking with them!?

Officer at the gate checked my passport and Immigrant visa( I think she scanned it), asked few normal questions, I said i am here to land as a PR and i took the U turn and showed my CoPR ,she said keep the CoPR to with me, given a yellow slip and directed me to park my car and go inside the building. To the officer in the building i repeated that i want to land as PR, He asked from where i m are coming , I said i am coming from Canada , took a U turn here to complete the landing procedure.
Without even checking passports or CoPR he said, rule has changed and i can't complete landing here and gave me CIC call center number and said cic will guide you. Then i said i know few people landed here like this last weeks , Then he said rule has changed recently and they got a notification yesterday.
Then i have come out drove back to home (paid CAD 3.5 at gate)

 

[zardoz]

You should probably read http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/manuals/bulletins/2013/ob545-mod.asp so that you know the procedure. It may or may not be helpful...

 

[maza]

It is clear enough that for landing one should go to the us side either at Rainbow or peace Bridge as this for them practically mean u went outside Canada and now u r coming back to land and go in.
taking the turn is simply not useful and leave u at the mercy of the officer , seems this one was so lazy and just told u to go to a cic office. Go to rainbow bridge and land today.

Good luck.

 

[bpraneeth]

Hi,
That shouldn't be the case as i have done my landing on jan 17th at peace bridge just by taking u turn and had not entered usa.
Dimma,
Please confirm with rainbow bridge officials if it is the same case even before going thre.

 

[deepocan]

It is clear enough that for landing one should go to the us side either at Rainbow or peace Bridge as this for them practically mean u went outside Canada and now u r coming back to land and go in.
taking the turn is simply not useful and leave u at the mercy of the officer , seems this one was so lazy and just told u to go to a cic office. Go to rainbow bridge and land today.

Good luck.

that is true, technically you should have gone to us side and got admin refusal. I did my landing by making u-turn and got hard time by the officer at the booth. He mentioned proper landing is to leave canada (go to us side) and come back. But actual landing was very easy inside the building, didn't even ask any documents just requested kids ids.

 

[Sober]

I don't know what rules they were talking about, because I landed today at the Rainbow bridge - walked to the US side - got administrative refusal - went back to Canada. Everything was done within one hour. I saw at least 10 people there who were landing too.

 

[Sober]

Guys shall i try my luck in rainbow bridge niagra falls ?
Only concern i have is, today at peace bridge they just scanned my passport and Immigrant visa , but no stamp put on passport ,
Since the immigrant visa is single entry , any issues, is this considered as immigrant entry?

They would cross your visa out with pen so that would mean that you used this single entry. So go and do your landing at the Rainbow bridge. Don't bother to drive - just walk )))) It's fun ) Was windy though, lol

 

[Alberto945]

You must go to USA and come back.

 

[Dimma]

Hi all, I have successfully completed my landing at Rainbow bridge with admin-refusal from US, Both US and Canada Officers were nice,
Nothing asked other than passport and CoPR , Got a signed copy of CoPR with stamps(stamp on passports also) and officer said
i will receiving the PR card in 4-8 weeks.

Thanks all for help and guidance ,

So Moral of my landing story is, "Peace Bridge - U turn" is risky, landing may not be guaranteed always, purely depend on officer on duty.

 

[eds1275]

Congrats !

Stamp on CoPR ? This is new to me. Mine does not have one.

Hi all, I have successfully completed my landing at Rainbow bridge with admin-refusal from US, Both US and Canada Officers were nice,
Nothing asked other than passport and CoPR , Got a signed copy of CoPR with stamps(stamp on passports also) and officer said
i will receiving the PR card in 4-8 weeks.

Thanks all for help and guidance ,

So Moral of my landing story is, "Peace Bridge - U turn" is risky, landing may not be guaranteed always, purely depend on officer on duty.

 

[Dimma]

Thanks eds , Just a stamp on back side of CoPR.

 

[zardoz]

Congrats !

Stamp on CoPR ? This is new to me. Mine does not have one.

Really? Mine has a total of four, all on the front, at the critical points.

 

[whymeee]

Can you land by taking a Toronto-Niagara Falls, NY-Toronto train? Or is it better to just walk across the bridge to New York?

 

[Dimma]

I just walked , That is really easy.