Importing car, compliance certificate and which other docs? if not accepted, still allowed to go thru?

[e200 0]

I have this immigrant visa, so I will be doing my first entry on it ( "validating it"), so I plan to drive my own canadian kia rio, to the POE. I have already requested the compliance letter from the kia from Canada. They are still processing it. I have read here in visajourney some cases that the certificate of compliance was accepted others that was not accepted and so on. So, my questions are:

 

1. if when I arrive to the border/POE, the documents are not accepted ( not enough or for whatever else reason) would I still be able to continue my journey and enter the US or I would be refused entry altogether?
2. If I am allowed to continue journey what should I do next, could I try to fix it from the US or the only option would be to come back to Canada and sell it?
3. What documents exactly do I need to import my car, the certificate of compliance, plus any other document or form?
4. if so, where do I obtain them?

 

thank you so much for your help,

[Kai G. Llewellyn 837]

5 hours ago, e200 said:

I have this immigrant visa, so I will be doing my first entry on it ( "validating it"), so I plan to drive my own canadian kia rio, to the POE. I have already requested the compliance letter from the kia from Canada. They are still processing it. I have read here in visajourney some cases that the certificate of compliance was accepted others that was not accepted and so on. So, my questions are:

 

1. if when I arrive to the border/POE, the documents are not accepted ( not enough or for whatever else reason) would I still be able to continue my journey and enter the US or I would be refused entry altogether?
2. If I am allowed to continue journey what should I do next, could I try to fix it from the US or the only option would be to come back to Canada and sell it?
3. What documents exactly do I need to import my car, the certificate of compliance, plus any other document or form?
4. if so, where do I obtain them?

 

thank you so much for your help,

 

1. Up to the CBP officer, some will allow a temporary import, others will deny entry to the car.

 

2. You can either try and obtain correct documentation and re-attempt within the US (if they allowed the temporary import) and go to a CBP office at an airport. Or run the car through the border again. If you cannot secure correct documentation you may either use a Registered Importer (see my guide below) or sell it in Canada. Cars that are temporary imported into the US are prohibited to be sold in the US.

 

3. Canadian registration (can be the combo insurance/registration that some provinces provide), Letter/Certificate of Compliance and I think they may want the bill of sale, but I don't think they need it. They will verify that the speedo on your car is readable in MPH and may take a reading of the odometer. If your car is approved for import they will provide you a stamped CBP Form 7501 Entry Summary. You take that to your State's DMV for registration and to get US plates. Some states may require your car to be CARB compliant to be registered.

 

4. Your Car Manufacturer's US representative.

 

By the way you may skip the letter of compliance IF your car has the 'Complies with US Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards' sticker, and EPA compliance sticker. The CMVSS / Canadian Emissions stickers are not sufficient alone.

Edited December 6, 2022 by Kai G. Llewellyn