US customs labor action at YYZ?
Apr 12, 2016, 10:04 am
#31
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One would think a reasonably enlightened employer would have offered to get you a green card by then?
Which is what happened with our son. Who has now been in Massachusetts for ten years, same employer, loves his job and does not plan to quit ever.
Which is what happened with our son. Who has now been in Massachusetts for ten years, same employer, loves his job and does not plan to quit ever.
Apr 12, 2016, 10:39 am
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it is an essential service in the usa. they can't strike. nor can they form a union. but in canada
http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/yyc-border...kout-1.2071046
http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/10/25...carry-firearms
http://www.canadianshipper.com/trans...ay/1000033754/
plus the countless other walkouts at land borders.
http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/yyc-border...kout-1.2071046
http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/10/25...carry-firearms
http://www.canadianshipper.com/trans...ay/1000033754/
plus the countless other walkouts at land borders.
Try harder..
You can import as much cheese as you like. The General Import Permit (GIP 1) provides tariff relief only for the first $20CAD imported. Over that you need to pay to play. You can thank Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada for that limit, not CBSA.
Apr 12, 2016, 11:18 am
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You're right. It's indefinitely renewable. But it's also a temporary workers visa and not a pathway to residency, and having a large portion of your career spent in the us working under that can be reasonably understood by a leo to be not temporary. I'm likely to work under a TN visa with long term intent so I'm happy you had 7x without incident, but my understanding from online immigration forums is that 5-6 renewals is pushing it.
Apr 12, 2016, 2:54 pm
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I was told it could be a problem for even one renewal, but I had moved to the US to work full-time for a US employer. Hard to argue it's "temporary" after doing that for 3 or 5 years or whatever the TN limit is.
Apr 12, 2016, 9:14 pm
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Delay was at the front end waiting for the application to move to the interview stage. Took about 8 or 9 weeks to be eligible to make the appt.
Apr 13, 2016, 3:53 am
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um, law enforcement officers abandoning their post inside the secure area of an airport with real police 60 seconds away is not of note? that's the behavior your expect of your unionized civil servants?
yes. and that's to protect the dairy cartel. which is why cheese smuggling is a thing. of course it isn't cbsa, it's the legislators that make these asinine rules.
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/201...eese-smuggling
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/201...eese-smuggling
Apr 13, 2016, 3:55 am
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my understanding from friends and internetz is that if you're full time living in the usa, renewal number 3 (9 years) is when it gets dicey
Apr 15, 2016, 3:57 am
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Preclearance this morning at YYZ looked to be an absolute mess. Queue snaked way out the door and the hall was jam packed.
Unfortunately my flight didn't register on the GE kiosk and I got sent to the desk. Easily took up 1/2 hour to get through 5 people in the line as the officer was really taking his sweet time on each person.
Unfortunately my flight didn't register on the GE kiosk and I got sent to the desk. Easily took up 1/2 hour to get through 5 people in the line as the officer was really taking his sweet time on each person.
Apr 15, 2016, 2:15 pm
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Preclearance this morning at YYZ looked to be an absolute mess. Queue snaked way out the door and the hall was jam packed.
Unfortunately my flight didn't register on the GE kiosk and I got sent to the desk. Easily took up 1/2 hour to get through 5 people in the line as the officer was really taking his sweet time on each person.
Unfortunately my flight didn't register on the GE kiosk and I got sent to the desk. Easily took up 1/2 hour to get through 5 people in the line as the officer was really taking his sweet time on each person.
Apr 16, 2016, 2:01 am
#42
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as there is no proof that there is "labor action" i think we can chalk this up to short staffing like all cbp ports in us airports
it's not a green card, it's an h1b visa and it binds you to the employer for 5 years until you get the green card. change employers (who has to go thru the h1b process all over again) and the 5 years starts over. putting a ring on an american is much more efficient. but what's more efficient than that is having a job and boss that you love
Apr 17, 2016, 11:43 am
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it's not a green card, it's an h1b visa and it binds you to the employer for 5 years until you get the green card. change employers (who has to go thru the h1b process all over again) and the 5 years starts over. putting a ring on an american is much more efficient. but what's more efficient than that is having a job and boss that you love
Last edited by canadiancow; Apr 17, 2016 at 12:01 pm
Apr 17, 2016, 1:55 pm
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I've done it twice as well. I'd add "or the employer is clueless". Mine expired for three weeks or so before each renewal due, presumably, to their lack of attention to the calendar since there isn't much to it aside from the posting of the notice and the filing of the forms etc.
Apr 17, 2016, 5:00 pm
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Most YYZ GE machines are working (some are out of service).
No lines, no talking to any agents.
Also, there's a new button. "NO TO ALL". So rather than saying "NO" to each of the five or six questions, it's only one button now
No lines, no talking to any agents.
Also, there's a new button. "NO TO ALL". So rather than saying "NO" to each of the five or six questions, it's only one button now