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Landing in Canada

Here you are - with your immigrant visa attached to your passport, flight booked, everything packed. You are ready to leave.

Did you check whether you need to report your departure to your government and its various institutions? In some countries, you have to notify the health authorities that you will not be paying the premiums. In some countries, you have to close a bank account before you leave.

Did you think of taking your medical records? Did you try to obtain a record of no claim from your insurance company?

Are you sending most of your belongings by mail or courier? Did you prepare a list of goods to follow? If not, you may be asked to pay duty on the important goods.

Do you have a mailing address in Canada? Where should the government send your Permanent resident card? If you don't have it at the time of landing, you will have to send it to the office within 180 days from landing. If you don't, your PR card will be discarded and you will have to apply for it.

At the time of landing, the immigration officer will ask you whether everything on the record of landing is true - whether your marital status changed, whether you have any or more children than listed on the application, whether you have the required settlement funds. It is very important to tell the truth - this is your last chance to notify the immigration of any changes that you failed to announce.

If you got married in the process and did not notify the visa office, you will not be allowed to land - your spouse must be first examined and found admissible to Canada. If you don't tell the immigration officer that you got married, you will never be able to sponsor your spouse. Never. If you had a child that was not included in the application, you will never be able to bring this child to Canada. But that's not the worst that could happen. You may be found inadmissible to Canada for misrepresentation and be deported.





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