have to bring all your stuff to cross with new K3?

[monicatony 0]

Finally heard from Montreal....interview Sep 19th! It's almost hard to believe! I know you lucky VJ'ers have Uhauls packed and ready to go when that K3 arrives ...but sadly I have to wait for that work auth. to transfer with my job. I want to cross with my new K3 ASAP and start the ball rolling on the AOS/EAD but don't want to make the big move right away... I have to come back to Canada for work. Does anyone know if crossing and activating your K3 is your one-shot chance to enter with all your worldly possessions or can I drive across with all that stuff later on down the road?

Mon Montreal bound

[Flames9_RN 358]

K3 is a multiple entry visa, so come and go as one wishes!! With regards to possessions, I believe (could be wrong) 1 has up to 10 yrs to bring stuff across.

[L_n_O 3]

awesome! I updated the spreadsheet with your new info!

[L_n_O 3]

So even with k1 on, after AP and all, I could bring my stuff later??

[monicatony 0]

thanks.. I am SOOOOO grateful for this site and all the lovely VJ'ers who have been so kind and helpful along the way! One day soon I'll be writing as yet another Canadian living in the US with no friends and Tim Horton's withdrawals! I hope my American man knows what he is in for ha! Ain't love grand??

Mon

[Flames9_RN 358]

I'm not positive on the 10 yr rule, just thats what i recall!!

[neiks 19]

K3 is a multiple entry visa, so come and go as one wishes!! With regards to possessions, I believe (could be wrong) 1 has up to 10 yrs to bring stuff across.

I was also told by my US customs counterparts that that there is no hurry as I have 10 years.

[Tinker 0]

Congratulations Monica & Tony !

[Flames9_RN 358]

There ya go, Neiks RARELY lies. lol

[neiks 19]

There ya go, Neiks RARELY lies. lol

NEVER lies.... well maybe play on my words a little....you know visiting my friend, oh, I mean husband...opps. lol.... . Give out the wrong info? Well, I am only human and sometimes I slip up. But, that is RARE. lol

[monicatony 0]

We are hoping to close on a house Oct. 1 so I'll have somewhere to actually bring all my stuff!! So many big things happening all at once. I'm sure my parents will celebrate the day I finally get the last of my junk from their "complimentary basement storage".

Now if only I can stop playing phone tag with Dr. Seiden's answering machine and get that physical.....

[Lance27 19]

Congratulations on the Interview.

[misa 2]

Now if only I can stop playing phone tag with Dr. Seiden's answering machine and get that physical.....

Did you leave Dr. Seiden's a message? I noticed they rarely actually answer the phone...

[L_n_O 3]

ya, I left them a msg and they called me back

[trailmix 77]

It is 10 years:

To be eligible for duty-free exemption, the articles must have either been available for your use or used in a household where you were a resident for one year. The year of use does not need to be continuous, nor does it need to be the year immediately before the date of importation

Household effects from the country where these effects were used, and meeting the above criteria, may be entered into the United States duty-free within 10 years after your initial arrival in the United States as a legal resident.

The source document is here - it's amazingly boring:

http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/toolbo....ctt/moving.doc