DigitalGhost

Sorry if this has been asked before but I did a search and I couldn't find anything. I know that a WHV is basically just a 12 month open TWP and other TWP holders often complete the standard GTF form as required but I wasn't sure if the process is the same.

We just need to have a few boxes of personal belongings over once we've arrived really, nothing fancy and we will just be using a standard courier service to pick the packages up from my parents in the UK and send them to us in Canada but we would obviously like to avoid any import charges if entitled to do so.

DigitalGhost

So nobody knows anything about this then?

JB0591

We did this when we landed on skilled worker visa. We sent the goods with Transglobal Express (they actually went via DHL but were cheaper with Transglobal). We had them listed on our goods to follow list and declared this when we went through customs.

The goods were picked up three days before we left the UK and arrived in Canada (Toronto) before we did.......we did have to wait 9 days after landing as it took that long for customs to release the boxes into DHL bonded store in Ottawa...although I think this was DHL doing.

Once we finally had the customs paperwork all we did was go to the customs office which compared it against our goods to follow list and stamped the paperwork. We then went back to DHL showed them the stamped customs paperwork and they released them.

We flew Air Transat, had we not flown on a late friday night flight then I would have used Air Transat Freight service. Meaning the boxes would have flown on our flight and I could have cleared them that day in Toronto.

Cheers

JB

Rob_999

No idea - but IMO theres no harm completing the GTF form and having immigration stamp it. Better that than getting an unexpected customs bill

DigitalGhost

Thanks for the really helpful reply. We're also flying in with Air Transat so I'll look into the freight service but to be honest we're staying in a hotel when we first land until we can find something more fixed and we won't have a car there so it may just be easier for us to have things sent over once we've arrived.

DigitalGhost

Thanks, that's what I thought.

It will only be a few boxes of personal items anyway, it's not like we will be importing a house load of furniture or 10 crates of scotch.