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Flames9_RN   358

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I do not know the whole story, but most of it,lol! My mom used to work with this younger gal who was dating an American! On one visit, she went down and stayed for approx 1.5 yrs. Came back to Canada, and then made more trips to the USA! Well just recently on her way back to the USA from SK--Her POE was Minneapolis and she got stopped!! Taken aside and interviewed for a few hours and the end result--barred from the USA for 5 years! She still thinks the USA customs dude were wrong! So Canucks do get barred as well!!

Canadians Visiting the USA while undergoing the visa process, my free advice:

1) Always tell the TRUTH. never lie to the POE officer

2) Be confident in ur replies

3) keep ur response short and to the point, don't tell ur life story!!

4) look the POE officer in the eye when speaking to them. They are looking for people lieing and have been trained to find them!

5) Pack light! No job resumes with you

6) Bring ties to Canada (letter from employer when ur expected back at work, lease, etc etc)

7) Always be polite, being rude isn't going to get ya anywhere, and could make things worse!!

8) Have a plan in case u do get denied (be polite) It wont harm ur visa application if ur denied,that is if ur polite and didn't lie! Refer to #1

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WHAT ?!?!?!?!?! THAT'S INSANE !!!!!!!!!! How come the Mexican border is not as rough as the ones with Canada ?!?!?!

That's just wrong...

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She stayed for one and a half years and only got a 5 year barr? She's lucky - she qualified for a ten year barr. I have heard of other Canadians being barred as well. When I worked for the MP we had a sad case where parents were trying to get their Canadian daughter out of deportation detention - she was living illegally with her boyfriend for 5 years in the US and took a cruise out of Miami. When she was questioned upon her return it showed she had already been 'removed' once 3 years before and then re-entered. We couldn't do anything as she was waiting for her court date - and of course her parents then turned on us for not helping their daughter out of the hell she had got herself into. As a US border officially very aptly informed me once when I tried to cross without my proof of citizenship (she was kind and let me in) 'The US is a foreign country. Our rules apply here".

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Yay for all of us doing things RIGHT.

WHAT ?!?!?!?!?! THAT'S INSANE !!!!!!!!!! How come the Mexican border is not as rough as the ones with Canada ?!?!?!

That's just wrong...

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I do not know the whole story, but most of it,lol! My mom used to work with this younger gal who was dating an American! On one visit, she went down and stayed for approx 1.5 yrs. Came back to Canada, and then made more trips to the USA! Well just recently on her way back to the USA from SK--Her POE was Minneapolis and she got stopped!! Taken aside and interviewed for a few hours and the end result--barred from the USA for 5 years! She still thinks the USA customs dude were wrong! So Canucks do get barred as well!!
Last I checked, Canada is a separate nation from the US, not a colony of it. So no news that a Canadian can (or does) get refused entry or barred.

The fact that she stayed 18 months undocumented may have something to do with her getting barred--depending on mood, the official could easily have instituted a lifetime ban.

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Flames9_RN   358

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I do not know the whole story, but most of it,lol! My mom used to work with this younger gal who was dating an American! On one visit, she went down and stayed for approx 1.5 yrs. Came back to Canada, and then made more trips to the USA! Well just recently on her way back to the USA from SK--Her POE was Minneapolis and she got stopped!! Taken aside and interviewed for a few hours and the end result--barred from the USA for 5 years! She still thinks the USA customs dude were wrong! So Canucks do get barred as well!!
Last I checked, Canada is a separate nation from the US, not a colony of it. So no news that a Canadian can (or does) get refused entry or barred.

The fact that she stayed 18 months undocumented may have something to do with her getting barred--depending on mood, the official could easily have instituted a lifetime ban.

I'm glad the last time you checked canada was its own nation Cherry XS!! Reason I posted was that many feel Canadians are immune to immigration bans!

Canadians Visiting the USA while undergoing the visa process, my free advice:

1) Always tell the TRUTH. never lie to the POE officer

2) Be confident in ur replies

3) keep ur response short and to the point, don't tell ur life story!!

4) look the POE officer in the eye when speaking to them. They are looking for people lieing and have been trained to find them!

5) Pack light! No job resumes with you

6) Bring ties to Canada (letter from employer when ur expected back at work, lease, etc etc)

7) Always be polite, being rude isn't going to get ya anywhere, and could make things worse!!

8) Have a plan in case u do get denied (be polite) It wont harm ur visa application if ur denied,that is if ur polite and didn't lie! Refer to #1

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WHAT ?!?!?!?!?! THAT'S INSANE !!!!!!!!!! How come the Mexican border is not as rough as the ones with Canada ?!?!?!

Because the Mexicans don't use the official border crossings when entering illegally. They sneak across at unprotected portions. I imagine if there are any that attempt to cross at manned POEs and if they're found to have overstayed on a previous visit, that they would also be banned. And then they just drive down the road a bit and cross at an unmanned opening, or hop the fence.

And please reduce the font size on your sig.

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I do not know the whole story, but most of it,lol! My mom used to work with this younger gal who was dating an American! On one visit, she went down and stayed for approx 1.5 yrs. Came back to Canada, and then made more trips to the USA! Well just recently on her way back to the USA from SK--Her POE was Minneapolis and she got stopped!! Taken aside and interviewed for a few hours and the end result--barred from the USA for 5 years! She still thinks the USA customs dude were wrong! So Canucks do get barred as well!!
Last I checked, Canada is a separate nation from the US, not a colony of it. So no news that a Canadian can (or does) get refused entry or barred.

The fact that she stayed 18 months undocumented may have something to do with her getting barred--depending on mood, the official could easily have instituted a lifetime ban.

I'm glad the last time you checked canada was its own nation Cherry XS!! Reason I posted was that many feel Canadians are immune to immigration bans!

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my hubby (well my BF at the time) phoned a lawyer to see what was the best way to get me down to the US and that lawyer suggested that I come down here and get married and then apply for AOS...

and stupid us partially knowing that was probably not the way to go about it deiced to do it..

so my hubby insisted I drive down so that I would have a car once I was down there and silly me probbaly packed it too much...

anyways I got to the border and told the guy that I was going to LA to visit a friend for 3 weeks.. the guy looked in my car a minute and then sent me inside... they asked me a bunch of questions once inside and then they to me in another room I waited for what seemed like ages when they finally came back I told them the truth, that I was going down to see my BF and see if it worked out and then if it did we were going to get married... then they told me that I would be banned for a year... and they took my picture and fingerprints.. I guess none of the other guys there had anything to do because they were all standing around me.. I guess trying to intimidate me or something :blink:

so after that they sent me on my way back into Canada... I cried the whole way home.. and called my BF in tears once I got home..

we got married a few months after my ban was over.... and we were a little nervous if the ban would affect our visa petition .. I did explain on the appropriate form what happened and at the interview all the guy asked was "did you have any other problems at the border besides that one time?" and I said no...

then at the POE when I had to deal with the visa stuff the guy seemed really grouchy and he punched in my info into the computer and then looked at me and said "so you were planning on moving to the US.." when he said that I was so nervous that he wouldn't let me through.. he kind of handled me a little rough when he was taking my fingerprints etc... but then he stamped my passport and sent me on my way... I was so relieved...

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Wow, I didn't know that story Marilyn. Glad it all worked out in the end for you. Boy would I have been bawling the whole way home though.

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