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    Building a Credit History after Landing whilst being outside Canada

    That makes sense! Thanks a ton! Any more ideas...?
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    Building a Credit History after Landing whilst being outside Canada

    Hi, Here are my challenges: Receiving funds into my Canadian Account will cost me ~ $14-17 per transaction As I am outside Canada, I would be required to pay ~ 3.5% FOREX fees for my transactions What I would like to do is, activate my card to start building a Credit history. I have a couple...
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    Building a Credit History after Landing whilst being outside Canada

    Hi, I have a $2,000 unsecured Credit Card offered as part of the “New to Canada” program at my bank. I am currently out of Canada and plan to move in by 2019. In order to build a credit history, I plan to use the card every month for about $5 (for example) and pay if off immediately. Does this...
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    Goods to Follow-- Duty to be paid or not

    We carried detailed lists. The form allows only 6 fields so we have excel sheets with Jewelry, Electronics (including their serial numbers), Clothes and Shoes, Household equipment, books and misc items. The more detailed it is, the less questions are asked. We had the following fields > Name...
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    Goods to Follow-- Duty to be paid or not

    We had this query answered by the Officer at the Declaration Counter (Goods to Declare). In our case, we had jewelry which needed to be accompanied with a surveyor report. As gold is dynamic in pricing, we only mentioned a price range. Without the surveyor report, the officer refused to stamp...