Webcrawler

Me too !
I am in the same boat as you.
I am landing in March.

"jag" <member20577@british_expats.com> wrote in message
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    > you're right! It is before 9/11. Since I know lots of things turned
    > around after that date, I really need some suggestion regarding the
    > current situation before I land in Canada.
    > Again thank you very much!
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Singh

Hi,

What exactly is landing permit and is this something that we get
explicitly when we land in Canada? Or do we have to apply for it?

thx,
Singh


    > salmanrs <member3510@british_expats.com> wrote in message news:<>...
    > > You can enter US as long as you have a "Valid Current Visa". Entry is
    > > not permitted solely on the basis of I-94. I'm on H1 and travel almost
    > > daily between Windsor and Detroit.
    > > If you take your car you "MUST"
    > > import the car, the officer would not allow you to enter Canada without
    > > importing. If you want to avoid the import, your best bet is to take a
    > > rental, tell the officer that you will drop off the car at an airport
    > > etc.
    > > As for getting back to US, you don't have to tell anybody, for
    > > all you want you could drive straight back once all formalities are
    > > done with immigration. Once your landing is done you could re-enter
    > > Canada based on the landing permit even without a PR card but this can
    > > only be done from US on a non commercial carrier.
    > > Make sure you have
    > > a current address in Canada before you start, you'll need this for the
    > > PR card and SIN.

Salmanrs

Jag/Webcrawler
I'm pretty positive about "having a current Visa", I-
94 by itself would not help. The Officer's at the border are supposed to
check for a valid visa, this includes Canadian PR's not citizens
carrying a Canadian Passports. My personal expirence has been that not
all officer's check for this. But if you don't have a current visa then
you cannot enter. Entering based on the validity of the I-94 alone was
changed around March 0f 2002. The new law/rule made it mandatory for
Canadian PR's to have visa's to enter the US, prior to that Canadian
PR's could enter based on their Canadaian residency.
If your visa had
expired Jag, you'd surely need a new visa, in your case it would just be
the stamping I guess since your already working on H1.

Thanks,
Salman

Webcrawler

Salman --

The rule about Canadian PRs requiring US visas is different from the 30-day
rule.

The 30-day rule used to be applicable even for non Canadian PRs.
Any US legal resident on H-1B/L-1, etc. could go to Canada/Mexico and return
within 30 days without getting a new visa stamp as long as they possessed a
valid I-94 and their current status is the same as the status on the expired
visa stamp on their passport.

I am aware of the new law requiring Canadian PRs to have a valid PR visa,
but IMHO, that is a different issue.

The big question is whether the 30-day rule has also been discontinued or
not.
I have come across several poster in the alt.visa.us newsgroup who have
successfully used the 30 day rule in the past few months to re-enter US.

That said, you may be right that it is an officer specific issue and some
people are successful and some are sent back.

I am still undecided on what to do about this - this is a very critical
issue for a lot of people and if only we had a solid answer, we could have
planned better.

"salmanrs" <member3510@british_expats.com> wrote in message
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    > Jag/Webcrawler
    > I'm pretty positive about "having a current Visa", I-
    > 94 by itself would not help. The Officer's at the border are supposed to
    > check for a valid visa, this includes Canadian PR's not citizens
    > carrying a Canadian Passports. My personal expirence has been that not
    > all officer's check for this. But if you don't have a current visa then
    > you cannot enter. Entering based on the validity of the I-94 alone was
    > changed around March 0f 2002. The new law/rule made it mandatory for
    > Canadian PR's to have visa's to enter the US, prior to that Canadian
    > PR's could enter based on their Canadaian residency.
    > If your visa had
    > expired Jag, you'd surely need a new visa, in your case it would just be
    > the stamping I guess since your already working on H1.
    > Thanks,
    > Salman
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    > Salman
    > Posted via http://britishexpats.com