Moving

[Sunshine Girl 0]

I certainly want to play by the rules as much as possible and we have yet to look into things directly with the border/immigration but if any of you have thoughts or experience on this, we'd love to hear it.

I plan to move to my husband's dairy farm in the U.S. when my Visa comes through. We are civilly married, but will get married in the church at the end of August. By then, our new home should be renovated so he will be living there, and I will stay there when I visit. The annoying thing is that I have all our dishes, pots & pans, etc in Canada because I've been living on my own for some time, while he still lives with his parents and has none. Is it possible for him to take some of these things with him when he visits me? or for me to "give" them to my husband when I go to his place? (We drive over the border to visit one another). My gut instinct is that the border will suspect us of trying to smuggle me in, but isn't it reasonable for him to have some of these things so we don't have to buy new ones just for a few months?

Thanks! I know it's not a high priority issue but it's part of the process! (also, is there duty charged on items that I do bring when I officially move?)

[trailmix 77]

Hi and welcome,

No, there is no duty on your personal items when you actually do move, you have 10 years to bring all your items to the U.S.

The other part may or may not be trickier. If you were a border guard and a U.S. Husband/Canadian wife pulled up in their car loaded with her personal household items and claimed that you were not trying to circumvent immigration - would you believe them?

No one can tell you whether or not it will be ok, if you can just gift them to him and he can take them back in duty free. 100% up to the border person on the day - might work just fine, might be a huge hassle.