Canadians do get barred from the USA as well!!

[Marilyn. 340]

yeah I was.. and I was kind of nervous to phone my BF because I didn't know what he would say or do.... our relationship was still fairly new at that point and I wasn't sure if he would think I was worth the wait .. my fears were ungrounded of course..

[Bern. 3]

Aw. Well I'm glad it worked out for you. <3

[Ban Hammer 13,110]

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

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...

see, you shoulda taken lots of timbits

[Bern. 3]

Timbits solve everything.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

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!

I can remember at least five times fielding questions which showed that faulty ideology, or the even worse one that Canadians have intrinsic rights to live/work in US, on the now-defunct (noved to Serbinski) Grasmick Forum.

(a fallacious idea similar to Canadians having intrinsic rights to be in US was also used by chop Looie Farakhan when he was denied entry to Britain in 2001--who went apeshite when Jack Straw informed him that Britain had rights to bar anyone other than UK passport holders).