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Thanks Steaky! Is there anyone who has done this who cares to share their experience at the border?

Thanks for these replies. I'm building on a list which I'll put in the OP. Any further additions are welcomed!

Can I land with my COPR, leave Canada (on business) before my PR card arrives, and then re-enter before my PR card arrives? I am from a visa exempt country. I read on the forums a while back, but whichever way I search I don't find the relevant post(s). Can anyone confirm? Thanks!

MY ORIGINAL QUESTION: I'm searching for a Canadian bank who will open an account for me prior to my PR landing. I would like to wire money so that when I land I have access to funds and banking straight away. I have found that RBC can do this, and that BMO can open a locked account until you...

Does that also apply to creating a company? I mean, can I already create a company now so that as soon as the whole family moves we're all set up and ready for Canadian life?

I'm a PR without permanent address in Canada. My mail gets forwarded for the time being until our family can move to Canada. Can I get a SIN if I do not yet have a permanent address, only a mail forwarding address? Thanks!

There are plenty of good posts about starting your own business on the forum, but I couldn't find any listing the different mandatory cost items, and where to find estimates, numbers or percentages. Is there a resource where one can find a full list of cost items for the self employed and for...

Thanks to everyone for your help! I finally stumbled on this page: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/newcomers/before-border.asp It groups everything one needs to know in terms of which papers are needed and which are useful.

Thanks for these replies! While I have been able to get info on opening times ( http://www.cbsa.gc.ca/do-rb/menu-eng.html ) which for HIAA is 9~24, I have not been able to find full information on which documents and documentation is potentially expected at the border. Obviously the COPR and...

Thank you PMM! What I meant with 3 is how much time it takes with the immigration officer, not the queue at immigration. I guess there is an interrogation and the immigration officer goes over the whole immigration file checking everything over once more? Or do they just look at the COPR and...

Not sure I am posting this in the right section, hope I do. We have our COPR and are looking into flights to fly to Canada and finalise the immigration at the border. Our destination is Halifax under NSNP. We travel with a baby, so can't really afford several connections and layovers, we need...

I understand, for me it is more a question of family negotiation. The wife: I don't go if you don't blablabla and so you'll be stuck here. Now I can say: don't come darling, don't need you for it. Childish, but, well, anyone has those kind of discussions at some point in their marriage I guess.

Thanks Leon! Is this something that can be arranged before arriving? Or have I misunderstood that one can do the formalities for the PR card at the border?

I guess hardly anyone arriving has a "permanent address". I mean you can't rent a place without being there, and sensible people wouldn't buy a place without seeing it either. So I guess one has to arrive and not go back to arrange the last things in the home country?

Thanks Leon!

Thanks Leon, as I'm the main applicant, seems the wife can threaten to not come as much as she wants without harming my future :P

Is there a professional postal service where one can have their permanent residence cards mailed to, who then forward them to whatever address we end up living at? The idea is that we come to Canada to get our PR cards requested, and then return home to continue organising the move and end our...

Once we obtain the Confirmation of Permanent Residence document (outside Canada, PNP) and our passports have been returned from the embassy, and we landed in Canada, how much time does it take to obtain the Permanent Resident Card? Do we need a permanent address at arrival, or can we stay at...

We are in the process of obtaining our Community identified Provincial Nominee Program Permanent Residence. If let's say 2-3 months after we settle we decide that in the end we prefer to settle in another province, is this possible? Or are we doomed to be resident in our province forever?

We applied for permanent residence status under the community identified provincial nominee program. There is a possibility that my family does not emigrate to Canada after all once PR status is obtained. If they do not come, does this, and how, affect my PR status?