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Kathryn41 Grand Master

Kathryn41   3,205

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Yes, you should declare anything you are bringing in as gifts. Just say you are bringing 20 (as an example) 'favour' boxes you gave out at your wedding for friends and family who weren't able to attend, etc. They might ask the value of the boxes or the items. It should not be a problem at all unless you are far more generous than anyone whose weddings I have ever been to :D . I brought Christmas gifts with me and just presented the list of items and value. He looked at the list, smiled, handed it back to me and that was it.

“...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?”

.― Lucy Maude Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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thetreble   19

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Hi Star,

I don't know about flying (I don't fly back to Canada...I travel by land instead...Too close to fly...lol....)

But in the past (before I received US Citizenship) I have travelled to Toronto with the following by land without too many problems....

To Canada: Canadian Passport with maiden last name (and married name notation...they don't have that anymore though), Green Card with married last name, Marriage Certificate (though they didn't want to see such but I had it just in case)...Declared: Canadian

Back to the USA: Green Card with married last name, Canadian Passport with maiden last name (and married name notation), Marriage Certificate (though they didn't want to see such but I had it just in case)...Declared: Canadian

I did though, renew my Canadian passport last year, which I also updated with my married name in it.

If I were you, I would renew your Canadian passport in your married name too, so it will be easier for you to travel later on.

Hope this helps. Good luck with your travels and with the rest of your journey too.

Ant

Just want to make a note on top of Ant's post, here. By declaration, she doesn't mean what you are declaring on your customs card. For Canadian purposes, you are a visitor, not a resident Canadian. Just remember that! And vice versa when you go back to the USA. You are a resident, not a visitor. :)

For declaring your citizenship, though, yes you are Canadian.

"...My hair's mostly wind,

My eyes filled with grit

My skin's white then brown

My lips chapped and split

I've lain on the prairie and heard grasses sigh

I've stared at the vast open bowl of the sky

I've seen all the castles and faces in clouds

My home is the prairie and for that I am proud…

If You're not from the Prairie, you can't know my soul

You don't know our blizzards; you've not fought our cold

You can't know my mind, nor ever my heart

Unless deep within you there's somehow a part…

A part of these things that I've said that I know,

The wind, sky and earth, the storms and the snow.

Best say that you have - and then we'll be one,

For we will have shared that same blazing sun." - David Bouchard

antda Experienced

antda   13

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Just want to make a note on top of Ant's post, here. By declaration, she doesn't mean what you are declaring on your customs card. For Canadian purposes, you are a visitor, not a resident Canadian. Just remember that! And vice versa when you go back to the USA. You are a resident, not a visitor. :)

For declaring your citizenship, though, yes you are Canadian.

Lol..Guess I should have clarified that a bit further...oops.. :blush:

Let me try again..

But in the past (before I received US Citizenship) I have travelled to Toronto with the following by land without too many problems....

To Canada: Canadian Passport with maiden last name (and married name notation...they don't have that anymore though), Green Card with married last name, Marriage Certificate (though they didn't want to see such but I had it just in case)...

Verbally Declared: Canadian Citizen (first). US Permanent Resident (second).

Back to the USA: Green Card with married last name, Canadian Passport with maiden last name (and married name notation), Marriage Certificate (though they didn't want to see such but I had it just in case)...

Verbally Declared: US Resident (first). Canadian Citizen (second).

Lol..Wait until you get into dual citizenship of both countries...That gets even more confusing...(but that's another story...)

Hope this helps too. Good luck with the rest of your journey.

Ant

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2000 (72+ Months) "Loved": Long-Distance Dating Relationship. D Visited Ant in Canada.

2006 (<1 Month) "Visited": Ant Visited D in America. B-2 Visa Port of Entry Interrogation.

2006 (<1 Month) "Married": Wedding Elopement. Husband & Wife, D and Ant !! Together Forever!

2006 ( 3 Months I-485 Wait) "Adjusted": 2-Years Green Card.

2007 ( 2 Months) "Numbered": SSN Card.

2007 (<1 Months) "Licensed": NYS 4-Years Driver's License.

2009 (10 Months I-751 Wait) "Removed": 10-Years 5-Months Green Card.

2009 ( 9 Months Baby Wait) "Expected": Baby. It's a Boy, Baby A !!! We Are Family, Ant+D+BabyA !

2009 ( 4 Months) "Moved": New House Constructed and Moved Into.

2009 ( 2 Months N-400 Wait) "Naturalized": US Citizenship, Certificate of Naturalization. Goodbye USCIS!!!!

***Ant is a Naturalized American Citizen!!***: November 23, 2009 (Private Oath Ceremony: USCIS Office, Buffalo, NY, USA)

2009 (<1 Month) "Secured": US Citizen SSN Card.

2009 (<1 Month) "Enhanced": US Citizen NYS 8-Years Enhanced Driver's License. (in lieu of a US Passport)

2010 ( 1 Month) "Voted": US Citizen NYS Voter's Registration Card.

***~~~"The End...And the Americans, Ant+D+BabyA, lived 'Happily Ever After'!"...~~~***

 
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