noiro_dz said:
Just checked the spreadsheet and saw that you landed today RYIT! Congrats! Let us know how it went
When I get to DM and then COPR how does it work? Do we get an e-mail for COPR or a letter in the mail? My wife needs to send her passport to Paris from Algeria right?
Thanks
Because Algeria is not visa exempt you will receive passport request before they change your ECAS to decision made. You will have to mail your wife's passport to the Paris Embassy. Once your status changes to decision made they will mail you your passport back and your COPR. Most people receive their COPR 2 weeks after ECAS changes to decision made.
You will NOT get an e-mail to notify you that a decision has been made or that your COPR will be issued.
Today I landed, got my SIN # and applied for OHIP. It was a busy day but it feels so good to have it all out of the way!!!
We landed at the queenston lewiston bridge at Ontario/New York. The lines to cross the border were very short but it took quite some time to cross because they were searching every inch of everyone's car because of the two inmates who recently escaped from the maximum security prison in new york (close to the border).
Anyway once it was our turn we told the CBSA officer we were there to land as a permanent resident of canada. He looked at our passport and told the officer that was there directing traffic that we were there to "flagpole". They sent us to park in front of a building where another officer came out and gave us a piece of paper that said we were denied entry into the USA (because we didn't want to drive all the way into New York and come back).
We then pulled a u-turn and drove back through the Canadian side. We told the Canadian CBSA officer we were there to land and gave him the refusal paper from the USA side. We were then directed to park and go into the office and provide the immigration officer all of our paperwork. There were a handful of people in front of us, but in total in took 30 minutes including waiting. We handed in our documents and then were asked to sit down. We were then called back up, confirmed all the info on the COPR was correct, confirmed that he had never been convicted of a crime and had no other family members/dependants landing at a different time and then signed the COPR and that was it. The officer congratulated us and we were on our way. Driving back into Canada we had to pay a fee of $4.25.
Afterwards we went to Service Canada and he got his SIN number which didn't take more then 15 minutes in total including waiting and then headed over to Service Ontario and applied for OHIP. We were told his OHIP card will be valid and issued in 90 days from today.
All in all it was a lot of driving but so happy it is all over!
Best of luck to anyone who is still waiting!!!
