Flagpoling really works !!!
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Thanks to everyone on this forum, you guys have been super Helpful and informative. Please keep up the good work.
Special thanks to Evantsp9 and Jubear!
Just sharing my experience so that others can benefit from it.
Background
I have done a 2 year masters and my spouse came along with me to canada. I was on a study permit and she got an open work permit. I applied for my PGWP and my Spouse OWP on May 18 and after waiting for more than 2 months and following advice on this forum primarily Jubear and Evantsp9 I went for flagpoling with my wife.
Flagpoling Experience
I took the greyhound bus from Montreal going to Boston at 8:15 a.m. in the morning. I took the ticket only till US costums (Border). I was processed as any other bus passenger at US border and then when I explained that I am here to go back to Canadian border for updating my work status. He asked me if you have been to US earlier I said yes and the officer gave me a 1 page letter saying that we have withdrawn our application to enter US and would be going back to the Canadian border on foot and he came along with us to show us the way and we went back to the Canadian border.
At the first check-point, the officer asked me why did you come to the border for application. I told him my wife's new employer wanted it urgently. Nothing else was asked and he guided us to go inside the office. A nice officer greeted us and asked our purpose of coming in and I told him that I wanted to apply for my PGWP and based on that my wife wanted to apply for her spousal OWP. He asked for documents - I said what exactly do you want? He responded by saying what do you have ?. Then I gave him only the required ones like my passport (which has my study permit), Degree, my transcript, my offer letter and my last two salary slips. For my wife I gave her passport (which has her work permit) and marriage certificate. That's it and he asked for any change in the address. We said Yes and gave our updated address. That's it he patiently kept working on the system and we waited in the lounge. He called us to check our work permits word by word and once checked he asked us to pay at the counter and once we paid we were done.
We took our work permits for three year stapled to our passport and left. Everything together took like 45 mins.
We had tickets to go back from the border to Montreal at 1:30 pm but bus never showed up and the first greyhound bus came at 5:15 pm. That was the only unpleasant experience but nothing as compared to the peace of mind we got by obtaining our 3 year work permits in a hassle free way.
Once again thanks to everyone on this forum to ask quality questions and those who patiently give quality answers.
You guys rock!!
