US Immigration from Canada

Hi all, I m still waiting on my i751 to be approved but have my 48 month extension letter. I was wondering if I travel outside of the country back to my home country aka Canada with my passport that has less than 6 months validity am I still allowed to enter back using the extension letter, expired green card, and the passport that has 3 months left on it?

Here it goes I have imported two canadian vehicles. One I imported when I cross the border with my CR1 visa (marriage VISA).

I was not sure what to expect and how will it go and I did not find many articles around here about this . So I hope my experience

will help many. So when you cross the border into USA to live there activating your visa importing your car is seen as bringing it

with you and part of the process and you do not need to pay tax and duty. I had all the paper work I needed at the border , which is

the form where you declair your car confirms with the US EPA most Canadian cars do and then most Canadian cars do not have

the Tire pressure monitor system and you need to install that . REMEMBER TO HAVE A RECEIPT with you to show or they WILL NOT

IMPORT your car. You can take it over but they will not do the paper work for you so you will not be able to register it in your state.

So, you NEED TO get the Tire Pressure Monitor System on , you can take it to the local mechanic and make sure you get a receipt.

So as I crossed over I told them I am importing the car and activating my CR1 VISA. They told me to pull to the side. So whenever you

cross activating a VISA or Importing a car they will ask you to pull to the side and go inside.

I went inside and did all the paper work that was needed, they gave me back all I needed to register my car in my state where I will

live . I had the Tire Pressure Monitor System on , they did not ask for my keys t check the devide they just looked at the receipt.

So then I went with the paper work to the place in my state to register , I got a new licence plate and I gave my title and they gave me

an ownership that was conform to the state. I had to pay some fees which were about 40-80 or so dollars. By the way the car was a

Hyundai 2018.

Now my second experience was after living in USA for a couple of years my parents wanted to give their car to my son.

So here we had a different scenario, where a car was given to my son and we were not crossing activating a visa we were

already US citizens. So we were coming back from Canada after visiting with a car. I was told I will have to pay tax and duty and

tarif when I spoke on the phone with the officer. So , what happen when we crossed with the car we told them we want to import the car .

Let me back track, we also had to get a gift letter from my parents saying they are gifting this car to my son. The letter has to be notarized

Both parents had to sign because the car was in both their names. Then we took the letter over to the DMV and there we got a 10 day

temporaty sticker that acted as the licence plate for the car. We took the plate off, since the car was now going to be in my son's name

my parents plate was no lomger valid and we used the 10 day temporary sticker . Put the sticker in the back of your window not the front

They will tell you to put it in the front but the police cnat see it and they will stop you . We had that happen, Once they see it you are good.

So, we did put the Tire Pressure Monitor System in place but we did not have a receipt for it , so at the border we were not able to import it.

We were allowed to take the car in but no paper work, so we had to find a border place close by which was not that close later on and go there

to import the car, after obtaining a receipt. So at the border place we did not have to pay anything since the car was a gift , but when we went

to register is in out state we they had to chage us . So they said they see it is a gift but they do not accept that so the car was evaluated just by

model make and year into the blue book and we had to pay a percentage of the price that the blue book was evaluating the car at . Depending

on the state you are going to the percentage will be different. So that is all we had to pay to import this car that was an old car about 12 years old.

It was worth it, it was chaper than buying same car here in the US.

I hope this helps !

Has anyone had any issues crossing a land border from US to Canada and then back into US? I technically overstayed my K1 visa by a month before I sent in my AOS. We were married within the 90 days but my i94 did expire. I was given my green card this past July but I m scared to try and come back into the US since I did overstay my visa by 1 month technically. Do you think this will cause an issue? I m planning to go home for the first time over Christmas. Flying up to close to the border then crossing by land. Thanks in advance. This has been stressing me out.

Hi Guys,

I am prospective US legal immigrant as Canadian, want to export my Nissan 2020 to USA; I am financing with CIBC and still have payments going on.

Please guide what is the legal way to export car to USA with lien on it from Canada, BC.

Cheers!

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