Customs/Immigration
Hi Guys
THought i share couple quick lines on how my wife's experience was coming through customs and immigration. Her and I came back on dec 30th, I went down there for couple days got there on 25th and flew back on 29th. At the customs the guys asked if there is anything else being shipped in additional to what my wife brought. Told him my wife will be going back in september to bring back rest of her stuff so he made note of it. I asked him if he wants to see the list of things she is bringing in right now including jewelry and he said no need. Then we went to immigration. the lady greeted us and asked the basic questions like, the current mailing address, nothing specific. We were in and out of immigration in 5 minutes.
On a side note, just an FYI for anyone bringing in jewelry. Its a good idea to take pictures of all your gold/diamond jewelry and get it appraised with proper dates/stamps. This will help you in couple ways one, if in future you end up going outside of Canada to attend someone’s wedding, for instance, and took your jewelry, on your way back you won’t have to pay duties/customs if they question it as you have the original appraisal as it came with you when you immigrated. Second thing it will come in handy for adding it to your home insurance policy. Just a suggestion.
