Anyone ever visited their finace(e) for a month from Canada?

[johnnyv 20]

How did your POE go?

[Hannah777 8]

Yes, I have a couple times even after being redflagged. I was denied entry for 6 months. When I tried after that time, make sure you bring proof of ties to Canada to show you are coming back to Canada. (letter of employment, lease/mortgage, utility bills, income tax returns for 3 years, etc) Also, if you filed for your fiance visa, show it. It shows them that you are trying to do things legally and aren't an immigration risk. If I hadn't shown them the forms, I don't think they would have let me across.

[johnnyv 20]

We've always brought proof of ties, mostly pay stubs, but they've never asked for them nor did any questioning.

How come you were denied 6 months?

Edited October 20, 2013 by johnnyv

[Lemonslice 4,967]

Yes I did between school semesters... no problem. I can't remember them being insistent on "how long" I was going to stay. Otherwise, I was usually crossing every other week for 2-4 days, so I guess they were seeing a pattern of me returning home.

[FlyCal 0]

I've crossed over for 2-3 months to be with my wife and daughter. It's a B-2 Visa, so legally we can do 6 months. The only thing the IO did was put a solid "return by" date in my passport.

As long as you don't have intentions of living in the US prior to being issued your visa/green card, there's really no reason why they wont let you go...unless of course there are other red flags.

[NikLR 13,232]

My husband came up to Canada for 36 days easily, but i never went down for more than 10 because of work. I think with good proof of ties it shouldn't be problem.

[mandaNchris 3]

I have crossed to visit for one to two months many times to visit my husband (at the time fiancé). The only time I had a problem crossing was when I didn't have a return flight because my husband planned to drive me back and visit Canada for a week. They did let me through after asking me the same questions many times and trying to trip me up. After that I never crossed without a return ticket if I was flying. We usually just drove though.

[Allanah and Chris 8]

How did your POE go?

Allanah came for ~4 months via land and we were detained for ~1 hour for questioning about incomes/etc. She got a crazy stern lecture about the K-1 visa as well.

The good news is you can do it, the bad news is you're not guaranteed that they can.