My Landing Experience :
Sorry for late message. We finally landed on 19th October at Pearson International Airport. The direct PIA flight of almost 15 hours was a hectic but over all it was good. You will receive the declaration card in the plan to fill in. One heading was "Home Address" ; fill your home country address in it, not the Canadian Address where you are going.
When you hear "PR persons to go separately" stay in the line and keep moving (Dont go to PR line) so take the line where you see people standing and waiting inline facing immigration Counters.
The first immigration counter staff, after seeing the passports and landing documents directed us to to the hall behind them , where main immigration staff processed our documents and directed us to "SIN (Social Insurance Number) counter.
At SIN counter, they took our information, but told us that we need to visit "Service Canada" office for registration. We were given free booklets etc etc and we left the area to grab our language. We took 2 free trolleys to grab our language from the belt and saw our cartons at one corner.
Moved ahead to Customs, and show the goods lists to custom's officer. She took the "Goods to follow list" stamped and recorded everything.
If you have "Accompany jelwlery" list or "jewlery to follow" it is very good to have pictures. It Took 1:45 mins at airport.
Next day, we went to "Service Canada" office and got our SIN numbers in 15 minutes. After that we went to the Bank and open joint account there.
Mobile connections: Fido, Koodoo & Virgin all have same rates and same packages.
Wind service is cheaper but heard that it is not good.....pls inbox me if you know anything about "Wind" mobile service.
Rogers & Bell are expensive.
Health card will come after 90 days. The time starts when you land in Canada no matter when you apply for health card, but remember you need to open the bank account first , so that you receive the first bank statement at your home, you need to carry along the statement (If you dont have statement then you can use Lease agreement) with you to apply for health card.
Now, will go for driving exam soon.
Can any one tell me where to go for Orientation course for Resume building, Access employment workshop etc etc, pls inbox me as i am not reading forum regularly. So pls inbox in reply. Thanks
I hope this info helps.
Regards,
Stranger Friendly