I have got PPR on December,2018 and received passport stamped on Jan 17th 2019.We (I and My Wife) decided to do landing as soon as possible because our COPR was expiring by end of April. We flew to Cleveland on Feb 27th night and stayed at hotel overnight at Erie. We started at 9 AM in the morning to peace bridge on a rental car and was very excited. We have reached to the bridge around 10:30 AM and officer at gate asked me the purpose of visit. I mentioned that i am here for landing purpose and then he asked for how long you will be staying in Canada - i said we will be here till Mar 3rd. He took our passports and verified the stamp. He handed over the passports with yellow slip and asked to park any spot and then visit the office.
I parked and went inside the office and noticed that i am the 1st person and three officers were waiting for us.
One of the officer waved us and asked choose any of us. We chose the one who waved us. All Officers were nice . They greeted us and asked to hand over the passport, COPR and POF. They did something on the system and asked question about have you convicted any crime ? Are we carrying any firearms , alcohol ? We answered no. Then officer asked when is our contract going to end in USA and we said there is nothing like that we will move to canada as soon as our process is done. They were impressed with the answer and asked us to sign the COPR and greeted us as - so you guys are now permanent residents of canada . Welcome to Canada and make us proud.
Then they asked about are we carrying any stuff which we need to leave in canada we said no as this was our soft landing. We mentioned that we have goods to follow then we need to get it stamped. Officer asked us to go to the next counter where we handed our goods to follow list they looked at our sheet and stamped. They went inside and made another copy for their report and handed over the original copy. Then they said to go to the cashier and hand over this document. Cashier attached another paper which says tax is zero and handed over to us. That’s it our soft landing was done very smoothly and we were in and out within 20 mins.
We did go to SIN office (Service Canada) next day and get our SIN done as well at Etobicoke office.
Coming back to USA
On Mar 3rd - we have started at 9:30 am from Etobicoke and drove to peace bridge to enter back to USA. I am on H1b and my visa was expired but i have i797 with end date in 2020. My wife’s passport was stamped and she is also on h1b. We reached at peace bridge around 11:15 am and officer asked to hand over the passports. He asked how many persons i said 2 and handed over the passports ( wife’s passport and my passport with i797 inside that) he looked at my wife’s passport and scanned . The. He looked my passport then opened the i797 and look at the expiration date and scanned my passport. He asked three questions -
That’s it he handed over the passport to us and said you are good to go. We didn’t even come out of the car and all process completed in 10 mins.
Please reach out to me in case you have any questions.
I parked and went inside the office and noticed that i am the 1st person and three officers were waiting for us.
One of the officer waved us and asked choose any of us. We chose the one who waved us. All Officers were nice . They greeted us and asked to hand over the passport, COPR and POF. They did something on the system and asked question about have you convicted any crime ? Are we carrying any firearms , alcohol ? We answered no. Then officer asked when is our contract going to end in USA and we said there is nothing like that we will move to canada as soon as our process is done. They were impressed with the answer and asked us to sign the COPR and greeted us as - so you guys are now permanent residents of canada . Welcome to Canada and make us proud.
Then they asked about are we carrying any stuff which we need to leave in canada we said no as this was our soft landing. We mentioned that we have goods to follow then we need to get it stamped. Officer asked us to go to the next counter where we handed our goods to follow list they looked at our sheet and stamped. They went inside and made another copy for their report and handed over the original copy. Then they said to go to the cashier and hand over this document. Cashier attached another paper which says tax is zero and handed over to us. That’s it our soft landing was done very smoothly and we were in and out within 20 mins.
We did go to SIN office (Service Canada) next day and get our SIN done as well at Etobicoke office.
Coming back to USA
On Mar 3rd - we have started at 9:30 am from Etobicoke and drove to peace bridge to enter back to USA. I am on H1b and my visa was expired but i have i797 with end date in 2020. My wife’s passport was stamped and she is also on h1b. We reached at peace bridge around 11:15 am and officer asked to hand over the passports. He asked how many persons i said 2 and handed over the passports ( wife’s passport and my passport with i797 inside that) he looked at my wife’s passport and scanned . The. He looked my passport then opened the i797 and look at the expiration date and scanned my passport. He asked three questions -
- Are you citizens of ? I said we are citizens of india , permanent residents of canada and working in states.
- For how long you stayed in canada? I said 4 days
- Are you carrying any alcohol or food product ? Answer was No
That’s it he handed over the passport to us and said you are good to go. We didn’t even come out of the car and all process completed in 10 mins.
Please reach out to me in case you have any questions.
