- Feb 6, 2015
- 174
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- Category........
- Visa Office......
- Ottawa
- Job Offer........
- Pre-Assessed..
- App. Filed.......
- 12-05-2015
- Doc's Request.
- 23-10-2015
- AOR Received.
- 11-06-2015
- File Transfer...
- 14-07-2015
- Med's Done....
- 09-02-2015
- VISA ISSUED...
- 02-12-2015 (Decision Made 25-11-2015)
- LANDED..........
- 08-02-2016
Hi all!
I will be landing a couple months before we have a formal wedding ceremony in the U.S. We expect to drive right back up to Canada with any wedding gifts that we receive. The CIC website says the following:
"If you get married within three months of coming to Canada or if you plan to marry no later than three months after you arrive here, you may bring your wedding gifts without paying duty. However, you must have owned them before you arrived in Canada. In these items the “use” requirement for the goods does not apply. These same conditions apply to household goods you bring in as wedding gifts."
Questions about avoiding taxes/duty:
1. Does the above description count even though we are legally already married, but we are having a formal religious ceremony within 3 months of landing?
2. Do I need to include on the "Goods to Follow list" any wedding gifts that I can *reasonably predict/hope* that we will receive, based on our registry? Or can we simply return to Canada with our wedding gifts within three months of landing and not pay taxes/duty?
And as a side question about U.S./Canadian weddings in general...does anyone have tips for the best wedding registry methods when half of the guests are in the U.S., and the wedding is in the U.S., but the couple lives in Canada?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
I will be landing a couple months before we have a formal wedding ceremony in the U.S. We expect to drive right back up to Canada with any wedding gifts that we receive. The CIC website says the following:
"If you get married within three months of coming to Canada or if you plan to marry no later than three months after you arrive here, you may bring your wedding gifts without paying duty. However, you must have owned them before you arrived in Canada. In these items the “use” requirement for the goods does not apply. These same conditions apply to household goods you bring in as wedding gifts."
Questions about avoiding taxes/duty:
1. Does the above description count even though we are legally already married, but we are having a formal religious ceremony within 3 months of landing?
2. Do I need to include on the "Goods to Follow list" any wedding gifts that I can *reasonably predict/hope* that we will receive, based on our registry? Or can we simply return to Canada with our wedding gifts within three months of landing and not pay taxes/duty?
And as a side question about U.S./Canadian weddings in general...does anyone have tips for the best wedding registry methods when half of the guests are in the U.S., and the wedding is in the U.S., but the couple lives in Canada?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
