Canadian landed immigrants need to carry residency card - intl. travel after Dec 31?
Dec 14, 2003, 9:50 pm
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Hey Biggles can you delete your link and add this one so we don't have the wide screen effect?
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Hey Biggles can you delete your link and add this one so we don't have the wide screen effect?
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Dec 14, 2003, 10:12 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Guy Betsy:
The only time the card is exempt for now is when travelling by road between US and Canada.</font>
The only time the card is exempt for now is when travelling by road between US and Canada.</font>
Dec 15, 2003, 7:42 am
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It may be of interest to anyone caught in this situation to report my timeline in applying for citizenship:
Applied - mid-Jan
Test - early Oct
Ceremony - next Friday (note to self - brush up on words to Oh Canada)
Applying for passport - next Friday
On my last few trips back to YYZ, the Customs/Immigration officers have been helpful in pointing out the new PR card requirement.
Applied - mid-Jan
Test - early Oct
Ceremony - next Friday (note to self - brush up on words to Oh Canada)
Applying for passport - next Friday
On my last few trips back to YYZ, the Customs/Immigration officers have been helpful in pointing out the new PR card requirement.
Dec 15, 2003, 10:25 am
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There is a huge public relations/campaign problem associated with all this. The issue has been widely reported in ethnic media (notably Chinese, and I'm sure Italian and Portuguese as well) for >1 year. It's just something that the ethnic journalists would pick up and spread among their communities. Yet, it wasn't apparent to the government that they need to do more campaign to get the attention of people who follow the mainstream media and who are landed immigrants.
Dec 31, 2003, 5:18 pm
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http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/12/31/residency031231
OTTAWA - The new year means new rules for permanent residents of Canada. Permanent residents, not Canadian citizens, are now required to have a plastic identity card for international travel.
Also:
http://canada.com/national/story.asp...C-D5B1775D5190
Confusion over a new federal immigration rule is so bad that it's threatening to strand Canadian landed immigrants at foreign airports today.
[This message has been edited by tcook052 (edited Dec 31, 2003).]
OTTAWA - The new year means new rules for permanent residents of Canada. Permanent residents, not Canadian citizens, are now required to have a plastic identity card for international travel.
Also:
http://canada.com/national/story.asp...C-D5B1775D5190
Confusion over a new federal immigration rule is so bad that it's threatening to strand Canadian landed immigrants at foreign airports today.
[This message has been edited by tcook052 (edited Dec 31, 2003).]
Dec 31, 2003, 6:58 pm
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It is all a bloody mess. I must resubmit my forms again because my original Australian passport does not have the passport number on the ID pages?????
Even though my original Landed Immigrant papers are okay. I hate this stuff! It is obvious that the Canadian authorities are playing the high hand here.
I will just continue to enter Canada as a tourist. Since Canada does not check passengers leaving the country, the whole exercise of immigration to get into Canada is a moot point. It is the easiest country in the world to get into and stay - a laughing stock of the world.
Even though my original Landed Immigrant papers are okay. I hate this stuff! It is obvious that the Canadian authorities are playing the high hand here.
I will just continue to enter Canada as a tourist. Since Canada does not check passengers leaving the country, the whole exercise of immigration to get into Canada is a moot point. It is the easiest country in the world to get into and stay - a laughing stock of the world.
Jan 1, 2004, 2:52 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by davistev:
It is all a bloody mess. I must resubmit my forms again because my original Australian passport does not have the passport number on the ID pages?????
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It is all a bloody mess. I must resubmit my forms again because my original Australian passport does not have the passport number on the ID pages?????
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I will just continue to enter Canada as a tourist. Since Canada does not check passengers leaving the country, the whole exercise of immigration to get into Canada is a moot point. It is the easiest country in the world to get into and stay - a laughing stock of the world.[/B]</font>
Anyway, for now I am canceling any travel that's not absolutely necessary.