Greetings All.
This forum has been a great help time and again for me. So just wanted to share my experience of landing at the Toronto Pearson International Airport.
I was flying in from New Delhi, India on the relatively new, direct flight being offered by Air Canada. It is a non stop flight (14 hours of flight time) and I landed in the wee hours of the day. Around 5 AM. Got to customs and I literally had no one in front of me. Never had this happen to me before
. Most probably because it was really early in the day.
Anyway, the officer asked if I was doing my landing, and I said yes and he directed me to a secondary space to complete my paper work. Again, there was no body in front me and I was called up right away. The officer asked me for my passport, COPR and my address here in Canada. After that, she asked me if I have ever been convicted for a crime and then asked me to sign the COPR. Then she told me that I will have to apply for a SIN and health card and that I have now finished my landing and said, "Welcome to Canada!".
I asked her if I could apply the SIN card here in the airport but because it was so early in the day, there was no one to process my application. I then went ahead to collect my luggage and started walking towards the exit. Now, because I was carrying some money, I was again asked to go to secondary (near the exit) where I had to show the receipts (I had travellers cheques). The officer verified all the information, asked me to sign a document and I was finally done.
The whole process of stepping out of the aircraft and exiting the airport took 25 minutes. I hope this helps and thank you everyone for their feedback over the last couple of years.
Best of luck to all that are still waiting.
Cheers.
P.
This forum has been a great help time and again for me. So just wanted to share my experience of landing at the Toronto Pearson International Airport.
I was flying in from New Delhi, India on the relatively new, direct flight being offered by Air Canada. It is a non stop flight (14 hours of flight time) and I landed in the wee hours of the day. Around 5 AM. Got to customs and I literally had no one in front of me. Never had this happen to me before
. Most probably because it was really early in the day.Anyway, the officer asked if I was doing my landing, and I said yes and he directed me to a secondary space to complete my paper work. Again, there was no body in front me and I was called up right away. The officer asked me for my passport, COPR and my address here in Canada. After that, she asked me if I have ever been convicted for a crime and then asked me to sign the COPR. Then she told me that I will have to apply for a SIN and health card and that I have now finished my landing and said, "Welcome to Canada!".
I asked her if I could apply the SIN card here in the airport but because it was so early in the day, there was no one to process my application. I then went ahead to collect my luggage and started walking towards the exit. Now, because I was carrying some money, I was again asked to go to secondary (near the exit) where I had to show the receipts (I had travellers cheques). The officer verified all the information, asked me to sign a document and I was finally done.
The whole process of stepping out of the aircraft and exiting the airport took 25 minutes. I hope this helps and thank you everyone for their feedback over the last couple of years.
Best of luck to all that are still waiting.
Cheers.
P.
