While the app is in the process....

[Eric Parker]

My Canadian wife and I just sent in our apps for her to sponsor me to come to Canada. I am from Oregon in the US. We have been married since May , 2009 after an 8 year courtship.

My step-daughter is to be wed in Alberta in August. I have been invited to attend and participate in that wedding.

Questions:

1. Will my going to Canada again after only 3 months be a "red flag" for border agents and be a stipulation for them to send me back home to the US? And if they do, will that jeopardize my application for the PR through my Canadian wife?

2. I will be honest and tell the the border agents I am invited to a wedding and will state (if they ask) that it is my step-daughter. Will having a PR application through my Canadian spouse in the works jeopardize me from attending?

3. Can the border agents, just out of principal, send me back to the US even with me being honest. And will that hurt my PR chances?

I plan to have a note from my Supervisor stating I will be returning to the US afterwards as well as having proof that I still live in the States and will not move to Canada until I do get the PR officially. I also have proof (in my passport) that I have come to Canada and returned to the US several times before - most recently last May, which is why I asked about if the border agets will get uptight about me coming to Canada 3 months or so after that last visit.

As usual, any advice or comments are welcomed.

EP

 

[rjessome]

You sound very prepared. I think you will be fine. Even if you got some nasty CBSA officer and they turned you away, it wouldn't hurt your application for PR. But it is EXTREMELY doubtful that will happen given how prepared you are with a note from your employer and everything. You know, just tell them the truth about what they ask. For ex:

Q. What is the purpose of your visit to Canada?
A. I am attending a wedding.

Yada, yada, yada. It probably won't amount to much at all but it's good to be prepared for everything like you are.

 

[Eric Parker]

It is just a few days until I go fly to Canada again...

I plan to bring, since there may be an 'issue' with me and my Camadian wife having an application in the works, the following items:
- Flight itiniary
- Passport (showing that I have come to and gone fron Canada (visa stamps) many times)
- Police clearences from FBI (dated 2007 and 2009) showing no arrests or convictions
- Affidavid signed by a Notary Public that states I will not overstay my visit (I plan to stay 10 days)
- A letter signed by my supervisor stating that I will be returning to work in Portland, Oregon after my stay in Canada
- Wedding invite from my step-daughter
- Copy of my lease on my apartment
- Copy of the receipt my wife recived for initiating her sponsorship
- Copy of letter from CIC stating that my previous app (FSW) was sent back due to change of legislation (the NOC Codes) and is not considered a 'denied application'.
- Copy of letter from same CIC that told me of my refund because of above.

Please note that because I was sent back to the US by customs in 2002 (because the Customs officer felt that visiting a person that I met 'on-line' was not an appropriate way or moral reason to visit Canada). Since then, I have been required to be screened twice - every time - at the airport. At the last 2nd screening, the Customs Official told me that I was being let in even though she had "serious misgivings" about me staying more than 5 days for a 'vacation' (I stayed 14 and went back as I was scheduled to) and that it was 4 months since the last time I visited. She looked very irritated that I had lots of documents. In fact, she told me that having all that documentation seemed suspicious to her, but because I had all that documentaion, she had to let me in.

So, do I have enough documentation, or do I need something more? Or would all those documents make customs 'suspicious' of me? Especially since I got married the last time I visited (and the Customs people never asked me if i was coming to get married and I never told them since they never asked)?

As always, and advice is welcomed.

 

[mud504@yahoo]

Most of it seems like the basics (intenary, passport, lease, letter from job and invite). That sounds like enough right there. If they question more then that, thats where the reciept and application might come in handy. The other things background checks, letters from CIC, Affidavidt?? That sounds like entirely too much, but it wouldnt hurt 2 take, but I wouldnt give them all paperwork right off the bat.