Last night we got our COPR and went to the border to leave and come back to land.
I guess that may have been mistake one. Before we crossed we spoke to a CBSA agent, who was extremely displeased with us. He said we should have made an appointment instead of crossing to come back because it takes up time he could be doing more important things. He advised us that we were free to cross and be refused at the US and return to Canada, but to know there was no guarantee he would let my husband back into Canada, and may issue a deportation order.
I was pretty shocked and how aggressive he was with us, I really expected the process to be easy and painless, and I wonder if I made an error in not making an appointment. We explained we thought we could do either or.
We decided to cross and take the risk. The US gave us a refusal notice no problem. We came back through one of the stalls and a different CBSA officer was again overly aggressive and giving us a hard time. He kept telling me that we went through the PR process incorrectly and not legally as my husband is a visitor and we are on an outland application. He told me this is not allowed.
Of course, I know this isn't true, and I explained politely, but he kept arguing with me, and really, you don't want to push it with these officers. He finally said "we're going to be looking into the legality of this". I don't know if he was trying to intimidate me, I would expect that a CBSA officer would know the process and rules but who knows?
We get in with the initial officer who warned us we may be denied and it resulted in an hour long process of interrogation and intimidating questions. At one point, four officers at once were involved. I could not believe it.
Once they concluded, they granted the PR, but I really can't believe how they fear inducing they made it. This is a simple, straightforward Irish outland application. I don't know if we did something wrong by flagpoling, but my god they were NOT happy with us. I'm glad we never have to do that again.
I guess that may have been mistake one. Before we crossed we spoke to a CBSA agent, who was extremely displeased with us. He said we should have made an appointment instead of crossing to come back because it takes up time he could be doing more important things. He advised us that we were free to cross and be refused at the US and return to Canada, but to know there was no guarantee he would let my husband back into Canada, and may issue a deportation order.
I was pretty shocked and how aggressive he was with us, I really expected the process to be easy and painless, and I wonder if I made an error in not making an appointment. We explained we thought we could do either or.
We decided to cross and take the risk. The US gave us a refusal notice no problem. We came back through one of the stalls and a different CBSA officer was again overly aggressive and giving us a hard time. He kept telling me that we went through the PR process incorrectly and not legally as my husband is a visitor and we are on an outland application. He told me this is not allowed.
Of course, I know this isn't true, and I explained politely, but he kept arguing with me, and really, you don't want to push it with these officers. He finally said "we're going to be looking into the legality of this". I don't know if he was trying to intimidate me, I would expect that a CBSA officer would know the process and rules but who knows?
We get in with the initial officer who warned us we may be denied and it resulted in an hour long process of interrogation and intimidating questions. At one point, four officers at once were involved. I could not believe it.
Once they concluded, they granted the PR, but I really can't believe how they fear inducing they made it. This is a simple, straightforward Irish outland application. I don't know if we did something wrong by flagpoling, but my god they were NOT happy with us. I'm glad we never have to do that again.
