Landing Experience - 17th Jan 2019 - Flagpoling - Lewiston Bridge - Took just 20 mins to become a PR
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You can print and bring your payment receipt. They didn’t ask me at border. But CIC officer asked my friend when he went by booking appointment.
Thanks for your answer. I am a single applicant, and paid 1040 CAD. the receipt I have in my account shows the total amount of $1040. should I present this receipt for landing as a proof of RPRF or there is one that specifically shows the RPRF amount?
Could you please share what documents you were asked to show for landing? Thanks.
They asked my
1. Passport
2. Took n retained my prev Work permit
3. COPR n instructions letter
Some officers may ask proof of ur Canada address. they didn’t ask me for proof, but just asked me to confirm.
Also make sure you have single entry visa on your passport if you are from a country that requires visa to enter Canada.
One more question, for the photo you sent for COPR, did you write down your name and DOB on the back of the photo that has name and address of the photo studio?
The photographer stamped and entered d date the photo was taken and the shop’s address on backside of a copy. U dnt need to wrry about it now as you already got ur copr.
Hi All!
All the best if you are still waiting for PPR and Congratulations if you have received yours.
I received my passport on 15th January and decided to do landing by scheduling a landing interview, but by looking at the timelines it was taking approximately 2 weeks from requesting to 'schedule an interview' to the actual schedule date. So, to curtail that timing, I and my dependent decided to flagpole on 17th Jan. We drove to Lewiston Bridge (Niagara-on-the-Lakes) and reached around 2:00 PM, we reached the US bridge. The US officer asked us "What is the purpose of travel?". We said "We want to flagpole to confirm our PR for Canada". She asked us for our passports, did something on her computer and asked us to drive to another officer just 80 meters away from our car and get the flagpole document. We drove there (didn't get out of the car even once), he gave us a paper saying reason to enter - 'FLAGPOLE'. This in total took just 6-7 minutes. We took that and took a U-turn towards Canada's border. There again we were stopped at the checkpoint and the Canadian officer asked, "when did you go to US?" and took our passports. We answered, "Few minutes ago.". She asked all sorts of questions, "do you have any duty free stuff?", "any groceries?", "any alcohol or cannabis?" etc. This must be a standard procedure. To all these questions, our answer was NO. She then returned our passports with a yellow paper and asked us to park and go to Canada Immigration office just 50 meters from the checkpoint.
We went inside and there was just one guy in waiting area. We went to counter and told the officer that we are here for our landing and the officer asked for our yellow document, flagpole document and of course passports (not the COPR documents, yet) and asked us to wait. In next 2-3 minutes another officer called us and took our COPRs. He asked us to put our address and phone number and made us sign our respective COPR and asked us to wait. He called us again after a minute and congratulated us on becoming Canadian PR. Stapled our copy of COPR and gave some standard instructions about "not leaving the country" etc. He asked for our WPs and shredded them, as they were no longer valid.
This entire process, excluding the drive from Toronto to Lewiston bridge LOL, took 20 minutes max. We became PR, after such a long wait (from AOR till yesterday).
PS - We didn't have a US visa at all.
Hope this would be helpful for you all!
Thanks!
Congratulations with your PR !
May i ask if you need your US Visa in order to do flag poling? I'm going through the same procedure but i'm a little bit worried because i dont have a visitor Visa.
No, you do not need US visa to Flagpole. I didn't have it either.
Thank you so much for your response!