Aoa everyone!!
Hope all of you are well and that there's plenty of good news to be heard. I thought I'd just drop in with a quick hello along with my experience feedback.
Alhamdulilah I landed in CAN on the 3rd of this month. The whole process went smoothly. Just a little note for all those ladies carrying jewellery/ husband's accompanying wives. Please make sure you get the jewellery appraised from your local jeweller or who ever along with pics of each set. Like for instance, my mother-in-law's jeweler appraised all my sets etc and wrote down their weight along with monetary value in PKR and $ on a piece of paper. I had gotten the pics taken for each set separately, hence he numbered them on the back and then wrote down their weight and respective details on his letter head. He then wrote the total weight of my jewellery with its conversion in CAN dollars.
On my immigration at the airport, they did not ask me for any documentation or jewellery. Only about the the monetary value of assets that I carried and I had it written down on my landing paper. Once I went to declare my stuff the CBSA (Canadian Border Services) office becz we plan on bringing in stuff from Pakistan (I even declared crockery, clothes, remaining jewelery, home furnishings etc), the lady there saw all my jewellery and wrote 'goods rcvd' and 'good to follow' accordingly on the back of the pictures.
She then got two sets of my documentation ready. One is CBSA record, other with me. Furthermore, she also informed me that now that I have declared my list of goods to follow from Pakistan, I can basically bring them in at any time over a period of my lifetime. It's not necessary that I bring in the stuff in ONE year, as I do not plan on visiting Pak before at least two years. Plus my parents or even parents-in-law can bring my stuff, as long as we meet them at the air port and take along our signed by CBSA list at the customs in order to avoid duty/ taxes.
That's about all I can think of at the moment. Good luck to all those who are still waiting to hear good news. Inshallah you all shall join your loved ones soon. The rest who've already rcvd PPR's, Re-meds, waiting for Visas, Congratulations in advance.
I pray you all get out of this misery soon.
Ps: CANADA is one HECK of a cold place to be in, imagine leaving 38 degrees in LHR and landing in 7 degrees!!:/
Take care all.