My Landing Experience

[jaggy999]

Finally, I completed my landing formalities @ Pearson Airport.

Here it goes............

The Flight:
I flew Jet Airways for Mumbai-London & Air Canada for London-Toronto. The overall flight experience was good. I strongly recommend Jet Airways though British Airways has ascendancy over others. I preferred Jet over British, as the stopover time was only 2 hours. It can be a bit tiring when your stopover is @ Heathrow Airport and you need to move from one terminal to another. It was a 19 hour journey including stopover(the shortest among all airlines).

Landing Formalities:
To start with the staff @ Pearson were very helpful and friendly. To be true, this was my first flight abroad and for a tenderfoot novice like me, I was nervous yet excited about the whole prospect of being in a new country.
1) I was first asked to go to customs officer. He was a huge guy with somewhat condescending attitude. The next thing (he yawns) while checking my docs and says "Welcome to Canada". He checked the custom's form(given in flight), my passport and COPR. This hardly took 2 mins.

2) He directed me towards CBSA officer. The CBSA officer(reminded me of Tom Alter) was a wonderful and cheerful human being. He greeted me and asked for my landing papers. He jokingly asked me how to pronounce my name. He then asked me if I had kids or have a girlfriend. I replied that I'm still single. He then asked if I had ever committed any crime in any country. I replied in the negative. He then asked me for my address and took signatures on COPR. I then had to wait for some 5 mins. After which he called me again and said that all formalities are done and now I'm a PR of Canada. With a huge smile, he said "Welcome to Canada".

3)I was then directed to an Indian guy, who gave me a few brochures and took me to another desk. This was the Service Canada desk. A very friendly person greeted me and said that he would issue me a SIN number based on my documents. He checked everything and asked me some personal questions and gave me a SIN number.

4) My Luggage had already arrived by now. So the only thing that remained was to get my lugguage on a trolley and just whisk out of the airport. It costs $2 per trolley, so you need to get some change.

The whole landing expereince took me just 15 mins in all:
Custom Officer:2 mins
CBSA Officer:7-10 mins
Service Canada Officer:5 Mins.

Hope this thread helps all those who are yet to land!!!!

 

[klmy]

Finally, I completed my landing formalities @ Pearson Airport.

Here it goes............

The Flight:
I flew Jet Airways for Mumbai-London & Air Canada for London-Toronto. The overall flight experience was good. I strongly recommend Jet Airways though British Airways has ascendancy over others. I preferred Jet over British, as the stopover time was only 2 hours. It can be a bit tiring when your stopover is @ Heathrow Airport and you need to move from one terminal to another. It was a 19 hour journey including stopover(the shortest among all airlines).

Landing Formalities:
To start with the staff @ Pearson were very helpful and friendly. To be true, this was my first flight abroad and for a tenderfoot novice like me, I was nervous yet excited about the whole prospect of being in a new country.
1) I was first asked to go to customs officer. He was a huge guy with somewhat condescending attitude. The next thing (he yawns) while checking my docs and says "Welcome to Canada". He checked the custom's form(given in flight), my passport and COPR. This hardly took 2 mins.

2) He directed me towards CBSA officer. The CBSA officer(reminded me of Tom Alter) was a wonderful and cheerful human being. He greeted me and asked for my landing papers. He jokingly asked me how to pronounce my name. He then asked me if I had kids or have a girlfriend. I replied that I'm still single. He then asked if I had ever committed any crime in any country. I replied in the negative. He then asked me for my address and took signatures on COPR. I then had to wait for some 5 mins. After which he called me again and said that all formalities are done and now I'm a PR of Canada. With a huge smile, he said "Welcome to Canada".

3)I was then directed to an Indian guy, who gave me a few brochures and took me to another desk. This was the Service Canada desk. A very friendly person greeted me and said that he would issue me a SIN number based on my documents. He checked everything and asked me some personal questions and gave me a SIN number.

4) My Luggage had already arrived by now. So the only thing that remained was to get my lugguage on a trolley and just whisk out of the airport. It costs $2 per trolley, so you need to get some change.

The whole landing expereince took me just 15 mins in all:
Custom Officer:2 mins
CBSA Officer:7-10 mins
Service Canada Officer:5 Mins.

Hope this thread helps all those who are yet to land!!!!

Many Many congratulations Jaggy bhae....best of luck for ur future life

 

[fatenny]

Finally, I completed my landing formalities @ Pearson Airport.

Here it goes............

The Flight:
I flew Jet Airways for Mumbai-London & Air Canada for London-Toronto. The overall flight experience was good. I strongly recommend Jet Airways though British Airways has ascendancy over others. I preferred Jet over British, as the stopover time was only 2 hours. It can be a bit tiring when your stopover is @ Heathrow Airport and you need to move from one terminal to another. It was a 19 hour journey including stopover(the shortest among all airlines).

Landing Formalities:

Congrats,may you experience God's divine favor while settling down. Tanxs for sharing ur experience, I pray mine will come soon!
To start with the staff @ Pearson were very helpful and friendly. To be true, this was my first flight abroad and for a tenderfoot novice like me, I was nervous yet excited about the whole prospect of being in a new country.
1) I was first asked to go to customs officer. He was a huge guy with somewhat condescending attitude. The next thing (he yawns) while checking my docs and says "Welcome to Canada". He checked the custom's form(given in flight), my passport and COPR. This hardly took 2 mins.

2) He directed me towards CBSA officer. The CBSA officer(reminded me of Tom Alter) was a wonderful and cheerful human being. He greeted me and asked for my landing papers. He jokingly asked me how to pronounce my name. He then asked me if I had kids or have a girlfriend. I replied that I'm still single. He then asked if I had ever committed any crime in any country. I replied in the negative. He then asked me for my address and took signatures on COPR. I then had to wait for some 5 mins. After which he called me again and said that all formalities are done and now I'm a PR of Canada. With a huge smile, he said "Welcome to Canada".

3)I was then directed to an Indian guy, who gave me a few brochures and took me to another desk. This was the Service Canada desk. A very friendly person greeted me and said that he would issue me a SIN number based on my documents. He checked everything and asked me some personal questions and gave me a SIN number.

4) My Luggage had already arrived by now. So the only thing that remained was to get my lugguage on a trolley and just whisk out of the airport. It costs $2 per trolley, so you need to get some change.

The whole landing expereince took me just 15 mins in all:
Custom Officer:2 mins
CBSA Officer:7-10 mins
Service Canada Officer:5 Mins.

Hope this thread helps all those who are yet to land!!!!

 

[donwin4real]

Finally, I completed my landing formalities @ Pearson Airport.

Here it goes............

The Flight:
I flew Jet Airways for Mumbai-London & Air Canada for London-Toronto. The overall flight experience was good. I strongly recommend Jet Airways though British Airways has ascendancy over others. I preferred Jet over British, as the stopover time was only 2 hours. It can be a bit tiring when your stopover is @ Heathrow Airport and you need to move from one terminal to another. It was a 19 hour journey including stopover(the shortest among all airlines).

Landing Formalities:
To start with the staff @ Pearson were very helpful and friendly. To be true, this was my first flight abroad and for a tenderfoot novice like me, I was nervous yet excited about the whole prospect of being in a new country.
1) I was first asked to go to customs officer. He was a huge guy with somewhat condescending attitude. The next thing (he yawns) while checking my docs and says "Welcome to Canada". He checked the custom's form(given in flight), my passport and COPR. This hardly took 2 mins.

2) He directed me towards CBSA officer. The CBSA officer(reminded me of Tom Alter) was a wonderful and cheerful human being. He greeted me and asked for my landing papers. He jokingly asked me how to pronounce my name. He then asked me if I had kids or have a girlfriend. I replied that I'm still single. He then asked if I had ever committed any crime in any country. I replied in the negative. He then asked me for my address and took signatures on COPR. I then had to wait for some 5 mins. After which he called me again and said that all formalities are done and now I'm a PR of Canada. With a huge smile, he said "Welcome to Canada".

3)I was then directed to an Indian guy, who gave me a few brochures and took me to another desk. This was the Service Canada desk. A very friendly person greeted me and said that he would issue me a SIN number based on my documents. He checked everything and asked me some personal questions and gave me a SIN number.

4) My Luggage had already arrived by now. So the only thing that remained was to get my lugguage on a trolley and just whisk out of the airport. It costs $2 per trolley, so you need to get some change.

The whole landing expereince took me just 15 mins in all:
Custom Officer:2 mins
CBSA Officer:7-10 mins
Service Canada Officer:5 Mins.

Hope this thread helps all those who are yet to land!!!!

This is very refreshing and informative!
Thank you

You can as well share with us how it all went down with you concerning accommodation, getting a job, coping with the weather, how friendly are the people where you landed et al...


God bless

 

[donwin4real]

Congratulations and Good luck in all future endeavours in your new country!
+1 for you..

 

[chandu01]

congrats!!
just a silly question, what time did you land?
i will be landing tomorrow around midnight, wondering will it make any difference>

 

[klmy]

congrats!!
just a silly question, what time did you land?
i will be landing tomorrow around midnight, wondering will it make any difference>

u r going to land in edmonton..right???

 

[jaggy999]

u r going to land in edmonton..right???

Already landed in toronto...

 

[klmy]

Already landed in toronto...

yes jaggy bhae..i know already..i was asking from Chandu..cz he is supposed to land in edmonton

 

[Target2013]

Finally, I completed my landing formalities @ Pearson Airport.

Here it goes............

The Flight:
I flew Jet Airways for Mumbai-London & Air Canada for London-Toronto. The overall flight experience was good. I strongly recommend Jet Airways though British Airways has ascendancy over others. I preferred Jet over British, as the stopover time was only 2 hours. It can be a bit tiring when your stopover is @ Heathrow Airport and you need to move from one terminal to another. It was a 19 hour journey including stopover(the shortest among all airlines).

Landing Formalities:



To start with the staff @ Pearson were very helpful and friendly. To be true, this was my first flight abroad and for a tenderfoot novice like me, I was nervous yet excited about the whole prospect of being in a new country.
1) I was first asked to go to customs officer. He was a huge guy with somewhat condescending attitude. The next thing (he yawns) while checking my docs and says "Welcome to Canada". He checked the custom's form(given in flight), my passport and COPR. This hardly took 2 mins.

2) He directed me towards CBSA officer. The CBSA officer(reminded me of Tom Alter) was a wonderful and cheerful human being. He greeted me and asked for my landing papers. He jokingly asked me how to pronounce my name. He then asked me if I had kids or have a girlfriend. I replied that I'm still single. He then asked if I had ever committed any crime in any country. I replied in the negative. He then asked me for my address and took signatures on COPR. I then had to wait for some 5 mins. After which he called me again and said that all formalities are done and now I'm a PR of Canada. With a huge smile, he said "Welcome to Canada".

3)I was then directed to an Indian guy, who gave me a few brochures and took me to another desk. This was the Service Canada desk. A very friendly person greeted me and said that he would issue me a SIN number based on my documents. He checked everything and asked me some personal questions and gave me a SIN number.

4) My Luggage had already arrived by now. So the only thing that remained was to get my lugguage on a trolley and just whisk out of the airport. It costs $2 per trolley, so you need to get some change.

The whole landing expereince took me just 15 mins in all:
Custom Officer:2 mins
CBSA Officer:7-10 mins
Service Canada Officer:5 Mins.

Hope this thread helps all those who are yet to land!!!!

DEAR Jiggy9...

Thanks indeed. it is good to get more information about immigration counter......



Target2013

 

[shef]

Thanks Jaggy for this wonderful information... One very silly question though....

How are you guys who land, start using internet almost in a day or 2? you have relatives or wifi is available or you just get the cell phone plan with internet which is being used....

I m sorry if sounds silly, but see many of us even sending emails or pics right on very next day after landing, so just curoius.

Shef

 

[BG2010]

Thanks Jaggy for your post. I am just wondering-- what form of money (bank draft, cash...) would be helpful to bring with you. The commercial banks in Nepal has limitation to carry foreign currency. Will the bank draft work in Canada? I mean the Canadian banks should not have any problem to accept bank drat to open the personal bank account. Please benefit us with your experience.

Thanks.
BG

 

[dbss]

Thanks Jaggy for your post. I am just wondering-- what form of money (bank draft, cash...) would be helpful to bring with you. The commercial banks in Nepal has limitation to carry foreign currency. Will the bank draft work in Canada? I mean the Canadian banks should not have any problem to accept bank drat to open the personal bank account. Please benefit us with your experience.

Thanks.
BG

get traveller's cheque..

 

[chandu01]

hi klmy, Yup landed today at edmonton at 2:00am.

 

[jaggy999]

Thanks Jaggy for your post. I am just wondering-- what form of money (bank draft, cash...) would be helpful to bring with you. The commercial banks in Nepal has limitation to carry foreign currency. Will the bank draft work in Canada? I mean the Canadian banks should not have any problem to accept bank drat to open the personal bank account. Please benefit us with your experience.

Thanks.
BG

Get 90% TC......nd rest in cash

TC are more safe nd no one would be able to encash except u.