Alhamdulillah We have landed yesterday at around 5:45 PM Toronto time. Below are my experiences at Pearson airport.
1. Landing: After landing as everywhere went to immigration. they looked at visa and asked about money(I had less than $5000 cash) then went to landing processing area. There just provided COPR and Canada address and after around 10 minutes we signed the COPRs and Landing done!
2. Customs: Just submitted the goods to follow form (B4) after collecting luggage. The officer even returned my detailed excel sheet. declared I would bring my 2 cars from USA and some Items from BD...one form did it all. Total: 5-7 minutes.
And thats it just around 30 mins for the whole thing!
Fund Issue: My hinch and hhsumon bhai's opinion is right...they never asked for my money...I had just above 4500 USD cash......due to money laundering issue they mostly try to have us declared cash/TC etc...
I went from USA and honestly I felt ppl are more polite at the airport....the US ppl are great too but their common expression might seem as rude to us...but for those of u coming from BD inshaaAllah u would love it here.
InshaaAllah I would go to day for bank account, Phone, SIN and other stuff...staying now at friends house inshaaAllah would go to semi basement from 1st October. Please pray for us.
Last but not the least, I am grateful top this forum for many help and advices May Allah bless us all!
Allah hafiz.