Hello Everyone,
Completed my landing procedure at Blue Water Bridge today (Sarnia)
Myy timeline (CEC Inland)
AOR - Jan 6, 2018
PPR email - Feb 14, 2018
Passport sent to CPC-OTTAWA - Feb 16, 2018
Passport delivered to CPC_OTTAWA - Feb 19, 2018
Received Passport back with COPR - February 26th, 2018
Completed Landing procedure - March 4th, 2018
So my journey went like this:
Saturday morning - Rent a car and drove to Port Huron, Birchwood Mall. At the US Border, told the immigration officer that we are going to do some shopping and then land when we got back. He asked why did we come all this way and not go to Niagara Falls, told him we worked during the week and can't get the time to go Tues-Thursday. He was friendly and expect for the 10 minutes wait in the line, we didn't have any other delays. Note: all four of us have US Visitor Visa.
Saturday Afternoon / evening - Did some shopping at Birchwood Mall, nothing fancy about the mall, just a Target, JC Penny and Macy (closing down sale - got a few good deals), the area though have other smaller malls with plenty of shopping options. Lunch at Applebees and then stayed at Fairfield Inn close to the bridge.
Sunday Morning - ate a very good breakfast at the hotel, would definitely stay again and recommend to anyone, reasonable price and lovely staff. We reached the border about 9am and there was one car in front of us. Was told to park at Immigration Section and given a yellow slip to go in. We didn't have to pay taxes on the goods because he said we were within our CAD200 limit per person.
Landing experience was really good. The CBSA officer was really friendly, and asked why we came all this way, and that we should have just called the number on our letter and get the appointment at the office and be done within 15 minutes. He also asked us to tell all our friends who already in Canada, and need to do landing to do it at the CIC office instead of going to a land border. He warned that if they had other persons doing landing and coming to Canada for the first time, then they would have prioritize them over us, and that in the future they might stop allowing people already in Canada to do landing at the land borders (another couple came in just as he said that, hello to the lady and gentleman from Colarado, first time in Canada, welcome if you are on this forum).
Anyways, the CBSA Officer was really friendly with the children, small talk and joking with them, and ask the usual questions (as already documented on this forum). He then asked us to take a seat. In 15 minutes he was done with the paperwork for all four of us. Told us to sign our COPR and welcome us to Canada. Gave us advice about maintaining our 2 out of 5 years residency, travelling before receiving the PR card, told us it might take 2 months but he couldn't guarantee they because sometimes they have delays.
Sunday Evening: Reach home and was able to link all four PR card application to My CIC account.
Thanks to this forum and all the members for their help, I will say it again, this is a very positive example of how the internet can bring people across the world to help each other and not to put each other down.
All the best everyone for their COPR and landing procedure
Completed my landing procedure at Blue Water Bridge today (Sarnia)
Myy timeline (CEC Inland)
AOR - Jan 6, 2018
PPR email - Feb 14, 2018
Passport sent to CPC-OTTAWA - Feb 16, 2018
Passport delivered to CPC_OTTAWA - Feb 19, 2018
Received Passport back with COPR - February 26th, 2018
Completed Landing procedure - March 4th, 2018
So my journey went like this:
Saturday morning - Rent a car and drove to Port Huron, Birchwood Mall. At the US Border, told the immigration officer that we are going to do some shopping and then land when we got back. He asked why did we come all this way and not go to Niagara Falls, told him we worked during the week and can't get the time to go Tues-Thursday. He was friendly and expect for the 10 minutes wait in the line, we didn't have any other delays. Note: all four of us have US Visitor Visa.
Saturday Afternoon / evening - Did some shopping at Birchwood Mall, nothing fancy about the mall, just a Target, JC Penny and Macy (closing down sale - got a few good deals), the area though have other smaller malls with plenty of shopping options. Lunch at Applebees and then stayed at Fairfield Inn close to the bridge.
Sunday Morning - ate a very good breakfast at the hotel, would definitely stay again and recommend to anyone, reasonable price and lovely staff. We reached the border about 9am and there was one car in front of us. Was told to park at Immigration Section and given a yellow slip to go in. We didn't have to pay taxes on the goods because he said we were within our CAD200 limit per person.
Landing experience was really good. The CBSA officer was really friendly, and asked why we came all this way, and that we should have just called the number on our letter and get the appointment at the office and be done within 15 minutes. He also asked us to tell all our friends who already in Canada, and need to do landing to do it at the CIC office instead of going to a land border. He warned that if they had other persons doing landing and coming to Canada for the first time, then they would have prioritize them over us, and that in the future they might stop allowing people already in Canada to do landing at the land borders (another couple came in just as he said that, hello to the lady and gentleman from Colarado, first time in Canada, welcome if you are on this forum).
Anyways, the CBSA Officer was really friendly with the children, small talk and joking with them, and ask the usual questions (as already documented on this forum). He then asked us to take a seat. In 15 minutes he was done with the paperwork for all four of us. Told us to sign our COPR and welcome us to Canada. Gave us advice about maintaining our 2 out of 5 years residency, travelling before receiving the PR card, told us it might take 2 months but he couldn't guarantee they because sometimes they have delays.
Sunday Evening: Reach home and was able to link all four PR card application to My CIC account.
Thanks to this forum and all the members for their help, I will say it again, this is a very positive example of how the internet can bring people across the world to help each other and not to put each other down.
All the best everyone for their COPR and landing procedure
