Thought I'd share our landing story, Mr. Parker24 landed today
It was nerve wracking. We landed at the Ogdensburg/Prescott Bridge, little tiny thing! Went through to the US Customs, he asked the citizenship of everyone (it was myself, my mother and hubby) and my mom, the driver, told him. The customs agent asked "How do you know him?" (my husband, to my mother) "Well he's my son-in-law" Agent: Oh that's too bad. Me: :-X Mom: For him maybe! Agent: For someone it is yes!
I was freaking out when he said that haha. We did a U-turn, back OVER the bridge, to Canadian side, got up to the Agent, asked what our business was in the US, mom said hubby was landing as a PR. Apparently this agent was having an influx of immigrants, he seemed annoyed that he had to fill out more paperwork LOL. Asked us about tobacco, firearms and drugs, naturally. Then gave us back our passports, and a yellow slip to take in to the building. I'll take a moment and note, I'm a very excitable person, my husband isn't haha. I was practically jumping while walking in until I got glared at by agents inside! MEEP! So we go up, they tell us to sit down :
... We wait like 5 minutes and then the officer called us up, all three of us. Asked for hubby's COPR and asked what his status was in Canada. He says visitor. "Do you have it with you?" "Uh..no.. We applied for an extension at the beginning of November, but haven't heard anything yet" "Do you have the proof of that?" Him and me:
Nope. She must have found it, asked for my mom and my passports to make sure we were Canadian and sent us to sit down. I attempted to read her lips hahah! But all I got was sign here, the card etc. So hubby explained afterwards that she had him go over everything and makes sure it was all right, told him about importing the car (we can just show up at that bridge with the title), talked about him getting a SIN and his PR card. Told him to NEVER lose the COPR, he'll need it like his birth certificate and marriage certificate, needs to be in a safe spot after he gets PR card. She stapled one of the pages of the COPR to his passport and said Congratulations! He was 5 feet from us so when he turned around we got up, went outside and I started getting bouncy again ;D Then drove back to Canada! Straight to Service Canada, got a SIN (took 15-20 minutes) and then to Service Ontario to ask about OHIP. You can apply before the three months, but you still have to wait three months. And said that he would need his Ontario DL, his PR card and a bill with his Canadian Address on it to get a health card.
And that's that! We're waiting on the title in the mail, will get a letter Recall Clearance from GM for the RIV, fix his dang door handle (it broke off last winter with all the ice) shop for insurance, GET insurance then import the car, get it safety check, e-tested and registered annnd get a DL of course.. Oh yeah and a job!
Then in three years citizenship ???
