Hi All,
I did my landing yesterday
Everything went smooth and didn't take much time!
I drove to Niagara with some friends and parked my car at one of those "$10 a day" parkings. The time was around 6 pm, I asked my friends to wait at Starbucks, took my document folder (passport, CORP forms and a work permit) and walked to the Rainbow bridge. Everything was pretty standard:
- paid 50 cents to "exit" Canda
- walked over to the US side (took like 5-6 mins)
- told US border officer that I am not here to enter the U.S., and he gave me the administrative refusal
- walked back to the Canada side (again 5-6 mins)
- CBSA officer gave me a yellow slip where he stated that I was there to do the landing
- I walked over to the CBSA office where they took my documents and asked me to wait in line (another 15 mins)
- CBSA officer asked me a few standard questions:
do you have any documents with your current mailing address? (I gave her my drivers' licence)
2 or 3 questions from the CORP form (just said 'no")
- I signed CORP in front of her
- she told me their "standard information" for new permanent residents....and said "Congratulations"
- I joined my friends in a bar for a celebration and just came back home
I wanted to say Thank You to the folks here who've shared constructive information & their experience - A Big Thank You, Guys!!
Don't want to be negative, but there was a lot of unnecessarily moaning in this thread as well
Good luck everyone!