Well we are sat in a hotel at Heathrow waiting on our flight tomorrow. POE will be Winnipeg via Chicago. Going in on TWPs. Start work on the 29th.
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone over the past year for support etc. Its been an emotional rollercoaster, quite a ride .
Thanks,
George.....

good luck and enjoy! Its a fabulous and most surreal feeling!!

Good luck

Surreal is definately the word of the moment!
Thanks

The Very best of luck to you both. I know it will be a great experience and I hope it all goes according to plan. Best wishes now and keep in touch. Linda.

<pedant alert> Landing refers to someone activating their permanent resident status. It comes form the old name for a permanent resident - a Landed Immigrant. So, technically, as you will be on a TWP you don't land. </pedant alert>

At least, not yet. Hopefully this will be a positive and enjoyable experience so in due course you will apply for permanent residency.

Good luck and let us know how you get on at POE,What documents they ask for and what sort of question did they ask, we are flying next week and and we will be getting our TWP at POE as well very nervous at the moment.

Good Luck, hope all goes well

Well we made it. journey started rather well as we were upgraded by Virgin to First Class , strange as this sort of thing doesn't usually happen to us. Got through US immigration in Chicago easy peasy, just had to queue up for a while but as we had 4 hours to make connection to Winnipeg it wasn't an issue. United flight left terminal 10 minutes late (not bad) and then joined a queue of aircraft at the end of the runway for an hour .
Landing in Winnipeg we got to customs and said we would like to apply for a TWP. The customs guy pointed to a room and asked us to wait in there. We were the only people in the room. After 2 minutes he turned up, asked us for our LMO approval and contract of employment and passports. He had a good look through them all and asked us what our plans were and if we had applied before. We told him that we intend to apply for Employer Driven PNP after 6 months and no we had not applied anywhere else as we had a choice of either applying in London or at POE so due to time factors we decided to apply at POE. He was cool with the whole thing, I did get the impression though that they only process TWP applications once a month as there ended up being 2 immigration guys conferring between each other.
We found the whole process simple, we were just very tired at he time so just wanted to get to the hotel and get some sleep.
Thats it up to date. Got my new employer coming to collect us from the hotel this morning. It all still seems surreal.
Hope this helps,
George....

How lovely, sounds like it's been quite pain free so far. Good luck with your new job and life!

Awesome, congratz and good luck

Welcome in Canada and sunny Manitoba !!

Glad things finally worked out for you guys...you sure deserve a good start .

Keep in touch and once you are settled and ready to discover, make it out our way!

cheers
Ilse

Delighted to hear it went so smoothly for you. Keep in touch now and let us know how you guys are getting on. Who knows, our paths may cross one of these fine days in sunny Manitoba. Not far behind you!!!!

Congratulations on a landing! But late I know! We have been in Manitoba 12 weeks today and I hope you settle in as quickly as we have. Good luck for the future here

"Landing" can also mean arriving by plane!