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2/10/2015 2:59pm
So my parents have a condo in North Vancouver that they want to get rid of this year so my son asks
his grand parents if he can go spend some time there before they sell it. He takes some time off of
school, I loan him my truck, he loads his bike and heads off to Canada with his Oma (Grand mother).
We live in So Cal, it's a drive.
Gets to the border and they ask how long he's going to stay he tells them maybe a couple of weeks.
They go through his phone and find a text that he might not come home for 2 months and they go ballistic.
They decide he's coming up to be an illegal worker and threaten to throw him and his Oma in jail. They decide
he doesn't have enough money to live on (he has literally no expenses while he's there but food and fun) and
the $2,000 isn't enough. They didn't believe him his medical insurance was good in Canada during his visit.
they end up NOT letting him and his Oma in Canada. Today they tried again with letter from Insurance company
and some extra funds and paperwork that he's still a registered student at his university.
They got in today but WOW. Guess they don't like folks with motorcycles coming in country.
Who would have thunk it's so hard to visit Canada?
TM
his grand parents if he can go spend some time there before they sell it. He takes some time off of
school, I loan him my truck, he loads his bike and heads off to Canada with his Oma (Grand mother).
We live in So Cal, it's a drive.
Gets to the border and they ask how long he's going to stay he tells them maybe a couple of weeks.
They go through his phone and find a text that he might not come home for 2 months and they go ballistic.
They decide he's coming up to be an illegal worker and threaten to throw him and his Oma in jail. They decide
he doesn't have enough money to live on (he has literally no expenses while he's there but food and fun) and
the $2,000 isn't enough. They didn't believe him his medical insurance was good in Canada during his visit.
they end up NOT letting him and his Oma in Canada. Today they tried again with letter from Insurance company
and some extra funds and paperwork that he's still a registered student at his university.
They got in today but WOW. Guess they don't like folks with motorcycles coming in country.
Who would have thunk it's so hard to visit Canada?
TM
From my experience going into Vermont and New York to ski is pretty easy.
Never tried it with a bike though, Unadilla will be a first for me, better to have papers in order
for the bikes and everything.
Just remembered some guys from the Beta / Gas Gas shop went down for an enduro
in SC last week. They don't seem to have any issues ever.
Glad he finally got through !
Sucks about your boy, but they can go through his phone, and there isn't one fucking thing he can do about it. It sounds like he ran into the wrong douche, but whoever he dealt with, did what they are legally allowed to do, without fear of reprisal. If they wanted to, they could have dragged him into a private room, and shoved a gloved finger up his ass, and he can do NOTHING. WELL, except wait, if he refuses, and they hold him until he takes a dump. Welcome to the world of border crossing.
The Shop
America loves me. I get asked one or two questions every time I cross the border, and the last time I went on a big trip there we were gone for two weeks and they asked me how the wedding was then waved us through. My ex looks at me with huge eyes and says "I can't believe that just happened. They tear the truck apart every time I come back from the states."
Then in 2010-2011 I was stationed in South Korea for a year. When I came home on my mid tour leave all I had was a backpack. I have a house with clothes, furniture and a wife in Utah, but the agent in San Francisco was asking me why I didn't have any luggage. Kind of caught me off guard. All I could think to say was "I live here". A few more questions later it came around to my mid tour, but he was an ass about it. Just be polite and welcoming to people visiting or returning to the country.
i got the 3rd degree going back into GB from France on the EuroStar line one year, I was flying out a day later but they still gave me a bit of a hard time as I had flown into Holland, I just try to be pleasant and answer any questions as best i can,
I know some people have had a hard time on the way into NZ as well, they are anal on food (esp Fruit) being brought in,
I think it comes down to the Border Patrol,
I'd never heard of it before in any other State I've visited though... is it actually a law or just bad advice?
Pit Row
I have had them doing their job thorough and performing what I thought was excessive search but I also traveled to some
places where there was a lot of drugs smuggled from. From what my son told me they were just jerks, threatened to throw him and my mom in jail. My mom who is in her 80s, they told her they could take away her condo if they want. Just total power trip.
Really? You're going to throw someone in jail for going on vacation? That hasn't even broken a law? How many kids go to Europe and trek around till their money runs out with no schedule? Now it's a crime to not have a schedule?
TM
Pretty much all North American Immigration officers are petty, officious and in love with their power. Being grilled at the start of a vacation in L.A. by a hostile Chinese woman who could barely speak English will live with me forever. My wife got the third degree on a business trip to NCR by Atlanta immigration. That one could have cost NCR a few million dollars.
I'm not looking forward to meeting U.S. immigration again in a couple of weeks. The only way we can get to our vacation destination of San Jose in Costa Rica is a connecting flight via Houston. For some obscure reason this now involves clearing immigration and customs in the U.S. filling out all the pathetic forms and, worst of all, having to fucking pay for a U.S visa! I really hoping I can keep my tongue in check when I get the inevitable question "what's the purpose of your visit?".
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