Travel to Canada with eTA with Green card extension I-797 letter

[mcdull 474]

On 3/29/2017 at 11:05 AM, bolin786 said:

On 3/27/2017 at 4:56 PM, Sukie said:

We travelled to Canada by car with the I-797 and expired Green Card.  We didn't officially need an eTA, but we got one anyway.  We had no issues getting the eTA or crossing the border.

 

Sukie in NY

 

 

 

On 4/5/2017 at 4:47 PM, gaia12 said:

My trip got cancelled. 

I did apply for eTA by changing the date and got approved within a few minutes. But that just seems to be system generated and not proof for anything.

 

Everyone above has had positive experiences so that's encouraging.

 

33 minutes ago, zuluweta said:

To those who have filled out ETA, is there a question on having applied for a Canadian visa in the past?

 You need to get an answer from somebody whose passport requires him/her a Canadian visa.  Hong Kong passports and Australian passport are all exempt from visa requirement regardless of his/her US permanent residency. However, Indian and the Phillippines passports are only eligible for visa free visit if they have LPR status in the US.

[zuluweta 250]

1 hour ago, mcdull said:

 

 

 You need to get an answer from somebody whose passport requires him/her a Canadian visa.  Hong Kong passports and Australian passport are all exempt from visa requirement regardless of his/her US permanent residency. However, Indian and the Phillippines passports are only eligible for visa free visit if they have LPR status in the US.

Yes, I was hoping somebody with a similar situation as mine would reply. 

[kimbaljl 10]

My husband and I recently traveled through Canada for a trip to Peru.  My husband's green card was expired, so he was traveling with the expired green card, his NOA, his Peruvian passport, and the eTA for Canada.  We had no problems entering Canada on the way down after we showed the agent the green card and NOA.  I came back earlier, so he was returning by himself, but the Air Canada agents in Lima, Peru would not accept the NOA as valid and insisted that he needed a Canadian visa to travel through there.  I posted on here and people provided both US and Canadian government documents showing that the NOA should be accepted, but the Air Canada agents still refused to let him on (we did not have the Canadian document at the time, so I don't know if that would have made a difference).  He ended up needing to buy a ticket straight to the US.  I 100% believe the Air Canada agents were wrong in not letting him on and have written to Air Canada but have not received a response yet.  But all that to let you know that some employees may not know that the NOA should be accepted.  But I would expect that employees working in the US and Canada would be more familiar with that document and would hope it wouldn't be a problem.

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[kmargaret 1]

Hi everyone,

What gaia12 and zuluweta said is absolutely right. This is is what I did on December 2018. I applied online for an eTA because I was traveling by air (I put the expiration date adding the 18 months the extension letter says). I printed the approval they sent to my email . And when the travel agent ask for my "visa" I presented the eTA email (he said that's my visa). In Canada the immigration officer ask me for my green card and I told her that I have an extension letter and I showed them together. She asked me the usual questions and that was it. From Canada to NY was easier. They are nicer I presented my green card and the extension letter to the travel agent and she just asked for my address in NY. The immigration officer asked the usual.

Thanks to all of you in this forum I could visit my family with this situation because I called every where (consulate of Canada in NY, uscis, Canada embassy) and nobody waned to tell me what to do.  So thank you guys!!