Travelling to Toronto for H1B Stamping by road

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resident1374

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I am traveling to Toronto by road for my 6th year H1b stamping (on Feb 6th, 2008) I want to hear from people who were in similar situation -

Did you surrender your I-94 at the border?
What did you tell the IO at the Canadian border?
Did you get a new I-94 while coming back?

I am a landed immigrant of Canada - do they any questions relating to that?

Any response is appreciated.
 
In case you haven't surrendered the I-94 during departing, you have to ask for it, during re-entry.

About you Canadian PR status, U.S. officials won't ask you any questions.
 
During my experience in 2006, I was not asked to surrender. They just stapled the old one to my passport during re-entry.
 
During my experience in 2006, I was not asked to surrender. They just stapled the old one to my passport during re-entry.

The old one which I have has expired in 2005. After that I got a new H1 petition which was extended till 2008 for which I didn't get the visa stamping and now the latest extended H1 petition is till 2011.

So, they will take the same and staple it to passport. Do they stamp a new date or something on the I94?
 
I travelled through the detroit-windsor tunnel. The canadian immigration often times does not take the old I94 (this is the one that came with your new H1b petition). The consulate may take it if you offer it to them. Eventually, at the re-entry they will just staple it to your pp. I did not observe them stamping it with new date; they did stamp my pp with the entry date (both at canadian and US entry point).

My observations were\are based on my 2006 trip and things may have changed now.

Are you driving or taking the bus?
 
tusharvk said:
I travelled through the detroit-windsor tunnel. The canadian immigration often times does not take the old I94 (this is the one that came with your new H1b petition). The consulate may take it if you offer it to them. Eventually, at the re-entry they will just staple it to your pp. I did not observe them stamping it with new date; they did stamp my pp with the entry date (both at canadian and US entry point).

My observations were\are based on my 2006 trip and things may have changed now.

Are you driving or taking the bus?
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I am driving. I am not sure if I understood when you said that "they did stamp my pp with the entry date (both at Canadian and US entry point)" - did that happen when you traveled by bus? I don't know if they (Canadian authorities) stamp the PP when you travel by road i.e. car?
 
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