doravmon said:
Hi everyone,
I have a question here......I just got PPR email, and send out my passport to Ottawa.
I'm already in Canada, so ....what should I do? Should I just go out of Canada and re-enter again??
Please help....tks!
CIC was facilitating PR landing in some local offices. I do not know if this is still available with IRCC (formerly CIC). A telephone call to the IRCC call centre could confirm if this is still available, and if so hopefully some information about where and how.
Previously that landing procedure was by appointment.
Since the vast majority of people in Canada live within an hour or two drive of a land crossing PoE, except for those farther away (including Calgary and Edmonton), it is typically just easier to drive to the border and do what is sometimes referred to as
flagpoling, which means driving across the border and back to do the landing. One does not actually have to enter the U.S. to do this, but can report to the U.S. side authorities and inform them what you are doing and, in effect, not request entry into the U.S., and they will let you turn around and return to the Canadian side. Some border crossings (well at least one I am familiar with), like the PoE at Fort Erie, Ontario, have a turn-around lane which allows you to not even go to the U.S. side, but to simply turn around right there just past the PoE offices and approach the PIL booth as if you had come across the Peace Bridge (note: been a couple years since I last crossed the Peace Bridge from Buffalo to Fort Erie, but I have seen no reports this has changed).
There are also many border crossings which allow pedestrians at the PoE, and typically it is easy for a pedestrian to turn around and walk back through the PIL (no need to approach U.S. side authorities) . . . Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls PoE for example.
But
flagpoling is typically no big deal either. (What I did, years ago, was make a one-night trip south and back.)
Last I knew, there was no access to PoE officials or offices at airports for this procedure.
A bit of irony: for where I live, it is many hundreds of km closer to a U.S border crossing and PoE than it is to a local IRCC office (since Harper/Kenney shut ours down several years ago).
