Originally Posted by Thomasst (Post 9217782)

I had a little shock on returning Wednesday as the immigration officer asked where my letter was from my wife stating her permission to take my son out of the country ! We were away for 2 weeks watching sport , and immigration mentioned i should have a signed letter from wife and or doctor giving me authorization to take my son with me . I mentioned we are not divorced have been married for 25 years but then got the horror stories of parents abducting their own kids ! I understand the situation but didn't realise it was such a big deal. Immigration mentioned we will be put on a register to check this doesn't happen again. Seems weird that we travel to the US regularly and it has never been mentioned before !

Originally Posted by JonboyE (Post 9217905)

Maybe the inconsistency is deliberate. If bad guys know what to expect they can prepare for it. It is oddball questions or procedures that catch out the liars.

Originally Posted by JonboyE (Post 9217905)

Maybe the inconsistency is deliberate. If bad guys know what to expect they can prepare for it. It is oddball questions or procedures that catch out the liars.

Originally Posted by dave2003 (Post 9226629)

It is so easy to enter Canada.

Decades ago I arrived at Calgary Int. airport-I had just returned from a vacation in N.Z. When I passed thru the Auckland Airport I was told that my carry-on bag was too big-it had to go in the hold. My passport was in that bag.
Arriving at Calgary, standing in line, I wondered what I would tell immigration. I told the truth, that my passport was in my checked baggage. So, immigration asked for i.d. that I was a Canadian citizen. Produced my driver's licence, and a couple of other things-not good enough said immigration-anybody can get those i.d.s. So I got out my Chargex card-yes, it was that long ago. "O.K." said the immigration lady-"credit card companies are far better at checking out residency status that we are," and that is how I entered Canada on a Chargex card for i.d.

Originally Posted by Miss Clinique (Post 9228265)

You paid those traffic tickets yet, or is the arrest warrant still out on you? ;)

Originally Posted by Miss Clinique (Post 9210956)

Arrived at Pearson yesterday afternoon, the usual 300 + people in line at passport control. I snaked around the line tapes for about 1hr 15mins. When it was my turn the IO officer asked all the normal questions, where have you been? why did you go? what did you do there? what did you spend $157 on in duty free? then she looked at my work permitt and noticed it runs out on March 30th. She asked what my status was in Canada I wanted to say you are looking at it, but refrained. She asked if we had renewed our LMO and if we had applied for PR. I said yes to both questions, she asked to see proof! I said I dont have any with me, she said she couldnt let me back in, as she has no proof that we have applied for a new LMO or PR and we may not leave at the end of March. She said when there is less than 6 months left on a work permitt then you need to carry proof with you. She said she should send me into the immigration office, and the only reason she wasnt was because the line was really long at the minute and on this occassion she would stamp my passport.Strange thing is, my husband arrived back a week before me and had no problems at all.

Originally Posted by lmartin999 (Post 9234130)

I was once visiting family in LA from the UK (on my way back to Canada while trying to pretend I had never left). Anyway, we decided to go to TJ for the day. Drove there in my in-laws F150 (obviously). Parked and wandered over the border into Mexico. After a few hours of drinking in a bar called Buckets in TJ I realised I had no ID (except for an expired BC Health Card). No photo ID at all. Luckily by this point I was ten drinks in and the proud owner of a large sombrero (see attached pic). Somehow (pre 9-11) I was allowed back into the US by explaining "I'm with them, I'm Canadian". In retrospect I kind of wish I had been denied entry....