Dear Leon,Msafir, and other experts
My friend and his family with children have their PR card expired last month when they are outside Canada and now they want to enter Canada through US land Border as all of his family including children have valid US visitors visa and they are from a non-visa exempt country. They want to settle down in Canada permanently in Jan 2016. Since, in this forum it was mentioned that the PRTD is difficult to get if the PR obligation is in question and they don't want to take the risk of being refused of issue of PRTD. It was told in this forum that PRs can travel by land in Car rented in US and pass through Canadian border at Niagara with COPR attached to their passports. Please clarify the following points.
1. Whether they can travel by Rental car from Buffalo, US to Niagara Falls, ON crossing the Canadian Border with the Confirmation of Permanent Residence paper attached to the passport for showing it to the CBSA officers as their PR cards are already expired in June 2015 after 5 years. Whether they will be allowed into Canada without being questioned anything relating to Residency Obligation.
2. Whether they can get a Rental mini Van in Buffalo from a rent a car company that will allow them to take the van from the Buffalo Border into Canada and drop off at different location in Toronto. Whether any of our forum member has come across with similar situation and used the rental car.
3. Whether the CBSA officers ask about the US car number plate and ask questions that why the rental car was not taken in Canada as they may be presuming that they are PR returning families after vacationing in the US.
4. Please provide any useful tips for the family which will be helpful for them to enter Canada in Car with expired PR cards but with COPR for showing.
5. If the one way drop-off rental car is difficult then what is the possibility of crossing the border with hand carry luggage only on foot and whether it will be allowed by the US border officers and what questions will be asked by CBSA officers, if they walk down the Rainbow or Lewiston-Queenston Bridge.
I appreciate and be grateful to all who will provide answers with full details so that they journey by my friend's family to Canada from US will be easy and hassle free
Thanks and Best Regards
My friend and his family with children have their PR card expired last month when they are outside Canada and now they want to enter Canada through US land Border as all of his family including children have valid US visitors visa and they are from a non-visa exempt country. They want to settle down in Canada permanently in Jan 2016. Since, in this forum it was mentioned that the PRTD is difficult to get if the PR obligation is in question and they don't want to take the risk of being refused of issue of PRTD. It was told in this forum that PRs can travel by land in Car rented in US and pass through Canadian border at Niagara with COPR attached to their passports. Please clarify the following points.
1. Whether they can travel by Rental car from Buffalo, US to Niagara Falls, ON crossing the Canadian Border with the Confirmation of Permanent Residence paper attached to the passport for showing it to the CBSA officers as their PR cards are already expired in June 2015 after 5 years. Whether they will be allowed into Canada without being questioned anything relating to Residency Obligation.
2. Whether they can get a Rental mini Van in Buffalo from a rent a car company that will allow them to take the van from the Buffalo Border into Canada and drop off at different location in Toronto. Whether any of our forum member has come across with similar situation and used the rental car.
3. Whether the CBSA officers ask about the US car number plate and ask questions that why the rental car was not taken in Canada as they may be presuming that they are PR returning families after vacationing in the US.
4. Please provide any useful tips for the family which will be helpful for them to enter Canada in Car with expired PR cards but with COPR for showing.
5. If the one way drop-off rental car is difficult then what is the possibility of crossing the border with hand carry luggage only on foot and whether it will be allowed by the US border officers and what questions will be asked by CBSA officers, if they walk down the Rainbow or Lewiston-Queenston Bridge.
I appreciate and be grateful to all who will provide answers with full details so that they journey by my friend's family to Canada from US will be easy and hassle free
Thanks and Best Regards