Whether you’re an HR Supervisor needing to ship somebody to Calgary to get a piece allow, an government in search of entry by means of Calgary as a enterprise customer, or a overseas nationwide coming to land as a everlasting resident, you received’t wish to miss this. I’m going to share my Prime 5 takeaways from Officer Paisley’s presentation.
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I simply acquired again from a particularly informative assembly with one of many good guys on the Calgary Worldwide Airport, Duncan Paisley, Border Providers Officer (BSO). Officer Paisley got here to talk to our CBA Immigration part in Calgary on April 27, 2016 to share a number of updates on the supply of immigration companies at Alberta’s busiest airport.
Now, I positively don’t wish to get Officer Paisley in bother by providing you with the impression that he pulled the curtain fully again and revealed all the CBSA’s high secret practices and procedures.
This was not the case.
Nevertheless, he was most gracious in sharing some fairly helpful perception on what goes by means of a Border Providers Officer’s thoughts when they’re caught with the unenviable activity of adjudicating an immigration associated entry on the airport. In truth, he shared some nice recommendations on find out how to make the method go an entire lot smoother and decrease the prospect of refusal.
Now who wouldn’t need just a little insider information to assist higher put together themselves for making use of for a piece allow or different immigration doc on the airport?
Let’s face it, the entire course of may be fairly darn scary. Heck, I nonetheless get scared and I used to be a type of officers in a earlier life.
So try beneath my Prime 5 Takeaways from the presentation give by Officer Paisley at our immigration part assembly.
1. Don’t journey through the busiest occasions on the airport.
The CBSA has undergone important cutbacks over the previous 10 years. Though increasingly individuals are travelling to Calgary to search some type of immigration standing, the variety of BSOs has been decreased from 100 in 2007 to solely 75 lively officers now. What this implies is that in the event you arrive on the airport throughout its busiest occasions, your wait goes to be important.
So when are the busiest occasions? …Sunday and Monday.
Officer Paisley described as of late because the “NAFTA rush” the place the variety of immigration associated entries climbs to nearly 100 – doubling what they expertise on the opposite days of the week (50-60). Wait occasions can stretch to so long as 3 or extra hours throughout peak occasions.
He additionally indicated that their most quiet occasions through the day are within the morning and after 7:00pm MST. Nevertheless, in contrast to the land crossings, its fairly exhausting so that you can select precisely once you wish to arrive on the airport. The mornings and evenings are slower for the easy cause that not as many flights are scheduled to reach throughout these occasions.
Tip: If it’s essential apply for an immigration doc on the airport in Calgary, keep away from Sunday and Monday just like the plague – and that if you may arrive within the morning or after 7:00pm this could be even higher.
2. At all times deliver a tough copy of your software supplies.
Though our sensible telephones and tablets are permitting many workplaces to go paperless, bringing an digital copy of your work allow software is not going to be nicely obtained by the BSOs.
Guarantee you’ve gotten a whole copy of all the fabric you can be relying upon. Officer Paisley confirmed that there’s just one charging station within the Voluntary Compliance Workplace (VCO) ….that is the world behind the glass home windows, and none in case you are despatched to the secondary examination space.
As such, in the event you plan on exhibiting the BSO a display screen shot of your on-line financial institution assertion, or the international subsidiary record in your firm’s web site, it’s completely attainable your telephone battery might die earlier than you even get to see an officer.
Tip: At all times deliver a whole paper copy of your software supplies versus an digital copy in your sensible telephone or pill.
3. The Canadian firm should be the employer of report on the Job Supply registration for work permits underneath the Worldwide Mobility Program (IMP).
For overseas service suppliers (FSPs) doing enterprise in Canada and different people making use of for work permits underneath the IMP, the method has change into much more sophisticated.
Though Canadian firms don’t immediately make use of the “staff” of the FSPs, the BSOs have been instructed to verify that it’s the Canadian firms which can be signing off as employer’s of report on the Job Supply registered by means of the employer portal. That is positively going to trigger some grief to Canadian firms that actually don’t have any employment relationship with the person consultants or technicians in search of to enter Canada to offer the contracted for companies.
It might nonetheless be technically attainable for the FSPs to finish the net Employer Portal registration and full the Supply of Employment registration on-line. Nevertheless, if travelling to Calgary, there’s a distinct likelihood the BSO might reject the Job Supply if the Canadian firm receiving the companies just isn’t listed because the employer of report on the Job Supply.
Tip: International Service Suppliers should make sure the Job Supply registration lists the Canadian firm because the employer of report when their staff apply for work permits.
4. Be ready for the day Digital Journey Authorizations change into necessary.
Officer Paisley expressed quite a lot of frustration with the entire eTA course of. Though eTAs usually are not but necessary, the leniency interval may be very rapidly coming to an in depth. If you’re coming from a visa exempt nation and you aren’t a US citizen or everlasting resident of Canada, you’ll finally want an eTA to board a aircraft to journey to Canada.
The eTA registration portal is extraordinarily glitchy. Officer Paisley has seen many individuals travelling to Canada with out correctly finishing the eTA with correct info. The net portal doesn’t assess the reply supplied with any diploma of scrutiny. As such, if individuals reply the questions incompletely or in a deceptive approach, it could actually have an effect on the validity of the authorization.
Beware that the portal might point out that an eTA just isn’t wanted when in reality it’s. Alternatively, there have been some points with eTAs being cancelled after a piece allow has been issued (it is a recognized glitch with no present work round).
Lastly, in the event you lived within the US and obtained a passport out of your nation’s Embassy situated within the US, you could possibly run into issues. If, whereas finishing the eTA software course of, you reply that your passport was issued within the US, the portal will typically mistakenly assume you’re a US citizen and make sure that an eTA just isn’t wanted when, in reality, it really is.
The record of issues with the eTA system is just too prolonged to determine right here. As soon as once more we’re being left to beta check IRCCs on-line submitting system (nightmares of the Specific Entry portal are flowing again to me) when they need to have performed this themselves lengthy earlier than it was launched to the general public.
Tip: At all times deliver a paper copy of your eTA software to the airport simply in case you want proof that you simply really filed it.
5. At all times examine your immigration doc to make sure it’s appropriate earlier than you allow the CBSA workplace.
Officer Paisley confirmed that the are fewer and fewer legacy immigration officers nonetheless working on the airport. What this implies is that extra inexperienced officers are those adjudicating immigration functions. In lots of circumstances, they do a positive job and there are not any points. Nevertheless, typographical errors on the work permits have gotten more and more widespread.
As such, it’s vital that you simply all the time examine your work allow earlier than you allow the CBSA workplace to make sure that there are not any spelling errors in your identify, the identify of your organization, work location, and even the title of your place.
It’s far simpler to appropriate a mistake on an immigration doc instantly after it has been issued than making an attempt to come back again to the airport at a later date to have the error amended.
Tip: At all times examine your immigration doc for accuracy BEFORE you allow the airport as a result of BSOs do make errors
6. Be sure you have the correct measurement photograph when finishing the touchdown process for everlasting residence.
Lately Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) modified the dimensions of photographs they’re requiring candidates to offer for immigration functions. As such, if it has been a while since your PR software was permitted and you’re simply on the point of finalize touchdown procedures, it’s attainable that you will have taken the incorrect measurement photographs wanted to your PR Card. You’ll be able to entry the photograph specs for the bigger measurement photographs right here.
Tip: IRCC now not accepts the smaller measurement immigration photographs. Be sure you deliver with you the bigger measurement when finishing touchdown procedures on the airport.
It was actually nice to have Officer Duncan Paisley take the time to share just a little perception on the supply of immigration companies on the Calgary Worldwide Airport. Possibly sooner or later he’ll agree to come back on our Podcast and reply listener questions.
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