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[montreal girl 0]

Hey yall

I have my interview on Feb 18 and I assume once they approve it that day it will take another week to get back my passport so that i can physically move to the US.

Question: I am financing a car and have 1.7 years left to pay on it. I called border patrol and they said i need to get a letter from the loan department that they give me permission to move my car to the US, and that I need to fill out two forms.... he also said i would have to pay a 2.5 % on the depreciated value of my car. Seems like a hassel...and ontop of that, my canadian bank won't take my preauthorized payments for the car from a US bank....so i don't know what to do....

has anyone drove across the border with their vehicule? are there any ways to get around all of that stuff and paperwork?

Edited January 25, 2011 by montreal girl

[Inky 1,110]

No there is no way around it you have to import your car. You need a compliance letter as well from the car makers.

This isn't an IR/CR-1 issue should be posted in the canadian forum.

You don't pay duty on your car with a visa.

[StacyandPeter 2]

They take your passport at the interview and don't give it back???

[OBX 51]

They take your passport at the interview and don't give it back???

They take your passport at the interview and it is returned to you (usually within a week or so) with the visa inserted.

[milimelo 4,194]

Moving to Canadian forum.

[StacyandPeter 2]

Oh no..this is not good!! My husband and I are planning on driving up to Montreal for the interview (I live in Rochester, NY) and he is only across the border from me so he comes to see me every weekend. If we plan on leaving from Rochester together that means HE won't be able to cross back over the border with me when we return???? This is NOT good! Is there any way around it???

[Flames9_RN 358]

Oh no..this is not good!! My husband and I are planning on driving up to Montreal for the interview (I live in Rochester, NY) and he is only across the border from me so he comes to see me every weekend. If we plan on leaving from Rochester together that means HE won't be able to cross back over the border with me when we return???? This is NOT good! Is there any way around it???

so u dont have a visa yet--ur not living there--ur visiting,lol You can ASK for the visa that day or next--explain the situation---and they may or may not grant it!!

[StacyandPeter 2]

Well He will get a temporary Green card right then and there right???

Will that allow him to cross over the border with me to go back to Rochester that day?

[Flames9_RN 358]

Well He will get a temporary Green card right then and there right???

Will that allow him to cross over the border with me to go back to Rochester that day?

no he will not get a "temp green car" then!! The Temporary green card--which is the I-551--is the stamp(visa) in is passport! Which they 99% of the time mail out!!

One can ask, and explain the situation---BUT they dont always, nor do they have to issue the visa that day or next! SO be prepared. No passport = no moving to the USA. Just another frustration!! And they do not always mail out the Passport and package right away! I guess DHL now handles the package---but again, it all coems down to how fast Mtl sends out the package!

[Inky 1,110]

The US embassy in Canada does not give green cards. It prints VISAS in passports.

[Married2009 32]

He will not be able to go back with you that day. Montreal might agree to let you pick up the passport the next day. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

Edited January 26, 2011 by Married2009

[Udella&Wiz 325]

Well He will get a temporary Green card right then and there right???

Will that allow him to cross over the border with me to go back to Rochester that day?

You sound surprised - you may want to do some reading in our forum in particular and then ask questions. Your timeline is whatever Montreal decides to do...folks in the past have made the mistake of assuming they can get their passport back right way or that they can enter the US immediately - it just doesn;t happen that fast. You can ask them at the interview and hope for the best as Flames says, it can't hurt.

[Flames9_RN 358]

and it takes anywhere from a few days to maybe close to a week and half to get the visa in the mail!! Thats why they recommend one don't make nay plans until u get the pkg in ur hands--or have refundable plane tickets!!!

[Danu 19]

As for the car part, I have a Nissan that I had a loan with Nissan on. They wouldn't allow me to take the loan across the border, so before I moved I had to transfer it to a Line of Credit with my bank. Not sure if my bank takes funds from an american bank for payments because what I keep doing is transferring funds to my canadian checking account and paying the LOC from that.

You won't have pay duty on the car as you are moving to the states, so it gets to come in free with you, but you will need something from the loan holder saying they are aware of you moving your car cross borders (paying mine off on the LOC let me pay off the car, so no one owns the loan, even though technically theres still a loan on it cuz the debt was just shifted). You do have to import the car, but its not really much paperwork if you can do what I did. In fact, I don't think I did any paperwork, just handed them a copy of my letters of compliance and the letter saying I had paid off the account and the car is now mine, and they filled out everything for me.