Hello Folks,
First of all thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks and tons of thanks for all the help I received from you guys. You guys are awesome. I really appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. Special thanks to Canadavisa team who made it possible and of course free of charge. Today I Confess that the help I received from here was 100 times more then my own lawyer to whom I paid CAD $5500. ( yes it is right not an extra zero in this figure, it was 5500). Sounds stupid right? yaa I know. But It was hard situation when I went to him but later everything worked out. But he is one of the top ones in Toronto ( you know why because he only takes genuine looking and possible looking case and thus has over 96% success rate). Anyways don't ask his name, after all he did all process for me.
So now here comes the landing story. Sorry I was really busy since I land and couldn't post it here. But I definitely want to post it here because it may answer at least few people's questions or doubts.
On 26th september I received my passport back from lawyer in vancouver,BC.( Passport stamped at LA and then they send it through flat rate international mail to toronto(lawyer's address)). If anyone is in this situation, I want to tell them there are not many people( national of visa required country) in this forums who lives in canada on any temporary permit. So if you are in this category and your passport is travelling from US to canada then it takes at least 2 weeks to get it and it is not registered mail and not possible to track it. Waiting for my passport was hardest time in this process( because of passport involved in this step). If possible use alternate method like making it send to US address of freind and make them send you with tracking.
So enough was enough. I didn't want to give them any more time to think again about this or change their decision lol. On 27th my wife was gonna start work late afternoon so we woke up early and headed to states in our car. At 8.45 AM we crossed Peace arch border( waiting was about half an hour). Headed straight to walmart and then JCpenny in Bellingham. We had to exchange some clothes from there. Filled up gas in my car, it cheaper in states as compare to BC so why not. Then headed back to peace arch bridge( didn't want to spend any more time in states because wanted to land ASAP). When we reached there in one of booth lineup there, didn't take long to figure out that our lane was the slowest lane. And it was damn slow literally. The cars stopped next to me in other lanes were already gone 10 mins before we reached at the booth. Anyhow, So we reached at the booth and it was lady officer and she asked when we headed to states. I told her this morning and also that I will be landing today. Questions she asked here was:- Is this your car? Are you bringing less then 10,000 dollars? How much shopping you did today? Any liquor or cigarettes we bought today?
Then she gave us a card and told us to go inside. We parked our car and headed inside. It was all empty. We were told to go to B section. There were only two people in front of us waiting. But there were no officers sitting or serving people. They were there and chatting to each other but not helping us. So after 5-7 mins someone( officer from other side section A) interrupted their conversation and laugh and told them to help us. Then they called other officers( I think they were having smoke brake) and started helping us. Two people in front of us were being helped now and we were first and last in the lane now. Then suddenly another officer came and called us. Guess who she was? Same officer who was in our booth lane. Someone probably kicked her out of her booth as she was taking way too long. Anyway she took papers from me, my address in canada ( driver licence from BC) and told her she has to do some background checks. I was like whatttttt again. She told us to have a seat and she will call us once she is done.
Then started the waiting game again, she was taking too long here too as compare to other officers. After about 15 mins she called me and said I need to go through some points on COPR. Those were like do I any dependents other than listed here? Did I do any crime? She already wrote NO there and asked me to put my initials. Then she told me to sign and she signed after me. Then She handed me my copy and a paper with information about where to apply SIN number and stuff and thats it. But no welcome to canada nothing LOL, I was like whatever. But it feels good when they say right?
Then we headed straight to service canada and were done in 15 minutes. She made copy of COPR and gave me SIN number on paper and said card will be coming in about 10 days. She told me inform Canada revenue and bank about my new SIN card changed from old temporary SIN. I called Canada Revenue and he said why you need to tell us about this. Service canada will do this, this is the internal procedure. I was like they told me to inform you guys. He said NO it takes about 30 days to reflect in our system but you don't need to worry. Later I informed Bank and they said its necessary to update your SIN with them.
Yesterday I was checking my Ecas, it now says COMPLETE with two different addresses. One my home address which was updated by officer at landing and other was mailing address which is my lawyers address still. So today I called them to see they sending my PR card to my home address or my mailing address( which is lawyer's address). She told me my mailing address is the address I had 2 years ago( my last home address). Its funny because they were gonna send my PR card to this address although they have my home address(current address but it was not mailing address). Anyways I made her update all addresses to my current home address.
The end( long writing lol). Now waiting begins for PR card and heading back home after 2 and half years.
Cheers!!!!!
