Hi everyone, I'll just share our landing experience.
We landed last Aug. 27 in Toronto.
I'd say that everything went smooth. la naman naging problem, except lang na naiwan kami ng connecting flight namin from Detroit to Toronto. Good thing at nakasakay kami sa sumunod na scheduled flight.
Upon arriving at Toronto Pearson Int'l Airport, immigration officers checked our passports and COPRs then we were asked to proceed to a room kung saan pinoprocess papers ng new immigrants. During that time, konti lang mga new immigrants na dumating, I think there were 6 families in the waiting area. Mejo matagal lang kami naghintay coz there were only 2 immigration officers facilitating the processing for new immigrants.
When it's our turn, the immigration officer just asked for our passports, COPR and customs declaration form. The officer was friendly & very accommodating. She just asked how much money we have and the address where we will be staying. She didn't bother to inspect the funds we have. Our funds were all in USD (50% cash & 50% bank draft). Then she asked us to sign the COPRs, then gave us our copies. & that's it, she said "Welcome to Canada". The processing just took us 10 minutes. Other families na nauna sa min took around 20-30 mins of processing. Processing time depends siguro on the number of family members. The more family members, the longer time for processing.
Then we were asked to go to a service kiosk where they gave us brochures & others materials containing information about settlement, & othe info on the things needed to be done by new immigrants (e.g. SIN application, health insurance, child tax benefits).
Regarding sa processing at the customs, very simple lang, they just asked for the list of goods accompanying & to follow (form B4) & asked us how much money we have (just to confirm the amount we indicated in the customs declaration). Then that's it.
Good luck in your applications, hope everything will be ok.
