Mightyechoes said:
Well it was one of the great and smooth flight from dubai to UK(LONDON)Heathrow.....A380 is among the best in their fleet. The behaviours and attitude of flight staff was awesome...
On the flight we were given the landing pass. It was a type of form and it was for those passengers who are having the transit visa or wanna go outside of departure lounges....I reached at Heathrow, board of the plane and get to the transit flights area...when ya will board off the plane then ya will see many signs saying transit flights.......so i followed the signs because i landed on terminal 3 but i had to catch my next flight from London to Calgary from terminal 5....so when i came close to the end of transit area then there was a bus waiting outside which was terminal 5 bus....one immigration security personal was with us.....we hopped in the bus n it took us to terminal 5...security clearnce is must for everyone, they scanned my hand carry and checked my passports n COPR, I cleared that in 15 mins...i straight went to departures lounges......London Heathrow airport is a bit complicated one as compared to Dubai....after 5 hrs i boarded to my flight to Calgary by american airline.....it was AA flight but infact it was code shared flight and operated by Bristish airways.....It was 767 plane.(Not so good) but it was ok......it was a flight of 10 hours.....and as we were near to land in Calgary, the flight head of personals came to sitting area and distributed landing forms.....it was like a form which contains....ur name......flight number, purpose of visit....amount deceleration(if ya have amount more then 10K then ya will have to disclose it)...and ur home address .i mean not canadian address.....it should be a pakistani address........At Calgary airport everyone was curteous and in welcoming mode and they smiled at ya and wave a hand and used to say welcome to canada...we were 15 immigrants....we all went to exit immigration counter, there they checked our landing forms and passports and guide us to the immigration department just at the back of the counter........
(Immigration Dept..will continue shortly).........
Regards,
Mightyechoes
Well at the immigration section there were 6 immigration officer were there to sort out the things for newly landed immigrants, I was at no.8....There was a indian old lady who dont know english, she requested me that.."PUTAR tu meray naaaal raheen tey inaa nu samjhan dayen that why i m here....she landed on the request of her daughter here in Calgary so i said fikar na karo amma jee...i ll do the translator services......she was behind me but i let her took my place and when they called her, i went with her and requested the immigration lady that i m here as a volunteer n as a translator.she liked this gesture n said from where ya are and i said i m from Pakistan..she was kinda appreciated this gesture of mine and said so a pakistani is here to help an indian.thats great.....after helping her i went back to my original turn...she said ya can come in n have ur turn but as there were two families behind me with kids so i gave my place to those families and i said.its ok i m without family so i wont mind standing in a line and i ll have my turn later.....why i am mentioning all of this here because i believe there is nothing wrong in giving others a helping hand while ya can..because i believe that good things comes to those who wait.....so after those 2 families.i walked forward and lady behind the immigration counter asked for my passport and COPR and after putting some information on teh computer and on my COPR.returned me all my stuff and said SIR welcome to ur new land CANADA, Now ya r a permanent resident"
I came outta immigration department in 10 mins and went straight for my luggage, after picking the luggage i went to a officer at the exit point where i told the officer that i ve a goods accompyning list as well as good following.so he sent me to another counter behind the luggage area where another officer put a stamp on my both B4 and B4A forms, I asked him that my family will have their landing in the coming month of february so will they have to fill the same forms by themselves or i will have to fill their forms.....he said no sir, they will fill their own forms......so i went out the exit where my cousin standing there with her kids to greet me.....and i put my landing gear on Canadian soil with my prayer.....hasbi Allah hoo la ila ha ila hu ailyee hee tawakal tu...wo hoa rabul arshil azeem......
SO THAT WAS ALL OF MY JOURNEY FROM LAHR----DUBAI----LONDON AND FINALLY CALGARY....................
Next i will tell ya all with regards to the SIN.No,health card,bank account opening, and police report filing and driving license procedure........
I tried to cover everything in those three posts above in a same way things happened with me.......but i gotta tell ya that they might be different with other landed immigrants.....so if someone else is having different views then its ok.......
Looking forward for ur kinds prayers and best wishes.....
Regards,
Mightyechoes......
