K-1 Canadian Consulate

[kariella 0]

If I am filing an I-129f for my canadian visa, would my fiance attend his interview in Toronto or does he need to travel to Vancouver or Montreal?

[YuAndDan 153]

K-1 is only handled by Vancouver or Montreal. No choice in the matter, the other consulates in Canada are not equipped to handle immigrant visas, and the immigrant visa unit handles K-Visas even though the K-Visa is considered to be non-immigrant.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Vancouver or Montreal is correct. Since you're asking about Toronto, I have to assume that's where the beneficiary lives, which means that they will be dealing with the Montreal consulate. The slowest consulate in the world.

[kariella 0]

Good luck with everything. The waiting now will be the worst part for me. Oh well, at least Toronto is only a 45 minute flight from NYC.

[Happy75 2]

Yes but it's a $400 flight. I used to fly, now I take the Greyhound bus from Penn Station to downtown Toronto. The bus is $100 round trip. Takes forever but I've had so many delays in and out of NY airports I don't care. In the end a door to door plane trip for me is about 6-10 hours. A door to door bus trip is about 14 hours and a quarter of the price. The train is a $200 round trip and takes even longer but would be more comfortable, and safer.

I've driven it twice. About 8 hours driving for me from Connecticut. Total trip is about 10 hours on a good day. Costs more in gas and tolls than the bus and puts tons of miles on your car.

[kariella 0]

Oh yes, flying into Toronto is ridiculous. Lately, I've been doing JFK to Buffalo and driving to 40 minutes into downtown Toronto.. wortks out way better for me.

Actually heading up there next week and spent 180 return. yay.

[iampatricias 17]

It takes you 40 minutes to drive from Buffalo into downtown Toronto??

[Krikit 1,165]

Yes but it's a $400 flight. I used to fly, now I take the Greyhound bus from Penn Station to downtown Toronto. The bus is $100 round trip.

Sometimes you can get Megabus trips for $1.00!!! I plugged in a random date for you (Apr 28th / May 4th) and you can get a return trip for $35.00.

It takes you 40 minutes to drive from Buffalo into downtown Toronto??

They probably meant downtown St Catherines.

[Shorah 2]

I live in Toronto as well and assumed the same thing about the consulate but nope! Montreal it is....sigh

I took the train from Toronto to NY once. Was comfortable but it took forever. After that I started flying from Buffalo, faster and pretty cheap.

My Fiance lives in California so no avoiding the expensive plane tickets for me =(