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Oh ok I misunderstood! Yeah there should be no problem how you send it they can't dictate to you what carrier to use!

It specifically says "Please note that we will not return documents to a Canadian address via any other courier." I assume this is because of federal obligations/contracts with them being required to only send mail via CanadaPost. Don't think you can use anything else for a Canadian address...

As a newcomer you are allowed a checking account without any prior history and usually you get free benefits. TD gives you 6 months free checking and an unsecured Credit Card as a newcomer. Yes convert the money to CAD and deposit it into the account.

You can find reasonable rent in Ottawa. I think you will be ok. It's tight but as long as you stick with necessities until you find a job you are ok. Honestly the $5000 CAD is a stretch for 4 months but this is assuming you don't find work. Most likely you will find work sooner than that and you...

Actually I remember now I did have 1 experience Crossing on a workday around 8 am. Took no more than 5 minutes literally only 2 Cars ahead of me. Not a good sample size but I bet it's like that most work days.

Actually planning on moving to Ontario. My job contract in Vermont doesn't end till June so I landed and came back to finish. Should be in the Toronto area ideally in June if I can find a job there! Wife's family lives there so would be ideal for everyone, maybe Ottawa! Montreal is a great city...

Hi, I actually live in Burlington, Vermont (across the lake from Plattsburgh) and actually make this drive a lot between here and Montreal. I don't do it on workdays usually but I will tell you upstate New York + Vermont have virtually no traffic. Even most of the Quebec areas you will drive...

Open the TD Bank and get the free checking for 6 months and the unsecured card. After 6 months you can close the checking account and keep the credit card. TD also has a lower tier bank (I think it is only $1.95 or $3.95/month) and that one can be waived with a $1000 minimum balance instead of...

Expenses can vary depending on rent and what you spend on, if you get a car, etc. Are you by yourself? If you are alone and get 1 or 2 roommates to share rent, you PROBABLY can get by on $1000/month but it is very much a stretch and really depends on how cheap rent you can get. If you are with a...

We landed this weekend and have a long list of items we will be importing as goods to follow in the coming months. We will be personally driving those items across the border in a Uhaul ourselves (like 99% of our stuff). What can we expect? Will they make us open each box and look at item per...

We landed this weekend and have a long list of items we will be importing as goods to follow in the coming months. We will be personally driving those items across the border in a Uhaul ourselves (like 99% of our stuff). What can we expect? Will they make us open each box and look at item per...

I too am watching and hoping we get some progress on this soon!

Thought this post is funny so decided to post my case. I'm a US Citizen married to a Canadian Citizen and living in the US. I have never considered living in Canada, but early last year seeing the political and racial climate I decided it would be a good idea to consider it. In summer of this...

Thank you that is good to know! Some jobs in the US require the SSN upfront when applying so glad this is not the case for Canada.

Same situation here. Just make sure you research ALL the costs including out-of-state property taxes, landlord home insurance, etc. For us its worth renting out but just barely. We are going to do it for a few years because property values haven't picked up in our area and because we got a great...

Ok so I just landed today via ground driving from the US. I actually will be in the US until June so all I did today was land and give them my B4 and B4A for goods to follow and then opened a bank account and unsecured Visa. I was able to open the bank account and credit card without a SIN #...

Ok! So by some miracle we were able to pickup our COPR today from FedEx Ground and we did our landing! Since we are still living in the US until June we only gave our B4 and B4A forms as our goods to follow list (about 6 pages long!). They stamped them and told us to bring them back when we...

If your spouse "OKs" it and allows you to there is nothing "morally" wrong with copying his/her signature yourself so its not "scanned". Legally not sure if that would fly but I know a lot of couples that do this for legal forms to avoid the hassle of having a form needing a live signature. That...

Ok I guess being cheap didn't help...my return envelope via FedEx Ground is being delayed because of the weather. Most likely won't get it until Monday which means can't land until next weekend :( I'm not super upset, quite honestly I would not have afforded the $200 it would have cost for FedEx...

Amazing, they really are churning them out now! Maybe this has to do with the new year new quota thing. I also heard that parliament has been trying to reduce backlog wait times and is now promising 12 month application limits on time so they are pushing them through now to get their numbers...