OK this is it:
Flew to seattle and started driving to the aldergrove/lynden border
, started getting nervous when about 2-3 miles away, anyway spotted
the US/Can immigration station ( small one ) on the country road,
dorve up to the window, was asked the reason , said we were landing,
told to go inside, the officer tells us we dont do landing of perm.
residents ! , go to sumas or pac. highway, so took a U turn and
drove back to the US office..officer got suspicious when I told him I
was in canada for 5 min! made me explain why I have an H1 visa with
I-94 attached and coming back from canada and returning back to the US
only to go back to can. again ! after a few tense moments let us in
, no mark on passports or anyting, drove across 12 miles parellel
to the border to the pac highway. again the can office asked me a
lot of Qs ( all of them very politely ) jotted down some things
and asked me to go inside the office, inside a nice lady took care
of the landing process, I showed the $*k in USDs and passports and
immigrant visas for self and wife and she stamped it and took us to
customs , here I had 2 copies of the goods to follow and goods with me
list ( needed to add up the value in CDN $s ) and we were done, all
was done so smoothly and so nicely! then got lost while trying to
reach the hotel in vancouver, it was late in the night! on highway 99.
anyway next day went to victoria had nice time, on monday applied for
SIN card, opened a bank account, got a BC ID. On the way back to
the US, at peace arch crossing blaine/white rock the officer asked us
to come inside ( my h1 visa was for prev. employer but valid and I had
the H1 apporval notice for the new one ) the officer inside chatted
with us, attached boths I-94s to our passports and let us go ..whew..
again no stamp on the passports frm the US side at all. back to seattle
now back home ...plan to move fully in 2-3 months time ! any Qs please
feel free to ask
I had a very nice experiance of canada!!!
Flew to seattle and started driving to the aldergrove/lynden border
, started getting nervous when about 2-3 miles away, anyway spotted
the US/Can immigration station ( small one ) on the country road,
dorve up to the window, was asked the reason , said we were landing,
told to go inside, the officer tells us we dont do landing of perm.
residents ! , go to sumas or pac. highway, so took a U turn and
drove back to the US office..officer got suspicious when I told him I
was in canada for 5 min! made me explain why I have an H1 visa with
I-94 attached and coming back from canada and returning back to the US
only to go back to can. again ! after a few tense moments let us in
, no mark on passports or anyting, drove across 12 miles parellel
to the border to the pac highway. again the can office asked me a
lot of Qs ( all of them very politely ) jotted down some things
and asked me to go inside the office, inside a nice lady took care
of the landing process, I showed the $*k in USDs and passports and
immigrant visas for self and wife and she stamped it and took us to
customs , here I had 2 copies of the goods to follow and goods with me
list ( needed to add up the value in CDN $s ) and we were done, all
was done so smoothly and so nicely! then got lost while trying to
reach the hotel in vancouver, it was late in the night! on highway 99.
anyway next day went to victoria had nice time, on monday applied for
SIN card, opened a bank account, got a BC ID. On the way back to
the US, at peace arch crossing blaine/white rock the officer asked us
to come inside ( my h1 visa was for prev. employer but valid and I had
the H1 apporval notice for the new one ) the officer inside chatted
with us, attached boths I-94s to our passports and let us go ..whew..
again no stamp on the passports frm the US side at all. back to seattle
now back home ...plan to move fully in 2-3 months time ! any Qs please
feel free to ask
I had a very nice experiance of canada!!!