Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Canada	Favorite Things About Where You Live(d)?	(note: having renounced Canuck citizenship last year, ....) Calgary, AB: promenades (walk/bike paths) along Bow River lovely scenery (Rockies visible on clear days from many parts of city, including airport, on clear day) nice view of (distant) downtown from airport easily-navigable downtown area many nice restaurants of multiple ethnicities (metro) Atlanta, GA: easy connection (road) to parts of FL, TN, AL, NC, SC some lovely sceneries good church reasonably-priced accomodations (plus availability of gas-cooking/heating) Memphis: reasonably-priced accomodations no state income tax (metro) Dallas: as with Memphis, but sales tax lower (and not imposed on groceries) church where pastor understood (albeit had no solution/nonsolution for) issue I was going through when I phoned from a distance Metro DC/Balto: some beautiful scenery (such as GW Parkway, just south of Potomac) excellent prayer-oriented Indian church	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2009-08-06 17:01:00
Canada	Zucchini Recipe Exchange	Zucchini kootu Boil one cup mung-dal in 2 cups water with 1 tsp of sauteed mustard seeds, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp sauteed cumin seeds Add 1 zucchini cut into 1/4-1/2" cubes, cook about 5 more minutes	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2009-07-16 20:12:00
Canada	AP & GC Question???	I'll attempt to answer it. Due to miscommunications within USCIS (you thought that they had fixed that "inheritance" from INS?), you will probably be OK.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2009-10-09 08:34:00
Canada	Ever see a fatality from an accident?	I recently saw a mobike accident in South Balto, around where 95 and 695 "intersect"; the mobike rider was lying on the median (appeared at minimum to be unconscious--I can't say for certain he was alive) and the mobike was turned-turtle about 150 m away.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2009-10-09 08:10:00
Canada	New fees- ouch!	There are two 'parties' of the Government involved in this process - USCIS and Department of State (DOS). Which cannot even coordinate INTERNALLY (as I found out in 1999) let-alone with each other. USCIS raised their fees 2 or 3 years ago while the DOS fees remained the same. DOS is in charge of the Consulates, so fees paid to the Consulates for Visas, etc. are going on this time as DOS increases its fees. USCIS fees are remaining the same. The 'explanation' for the increase is that the money is needed to cover the actual costs involved in issuing the visa. Certain visas are considered more labour-intensive - including the K-1 visas - and thus are being raised substantially higher. The 'explanation' for the USCIS increases several years ago was virtually the same - except we found out that money was being diverted from immigrant application processing to ICE activities and programs as well . This is where the fee increases hit the hardest- when you have a ready made family who is coming to the US. It is expensive enough for one, but for more it does become very pricey.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-06-01 19:29:00
Canada	New fees- ouch!	A big "thank you" to each of you who responded. I have read SO much about this process and have saved SO many links that I just couldn't seem to remember where to find the info I was looking for. Add me the the list of people who feel this process is excessively complicated and ridiculously expensive (times 4). Eh, it's a lot LESS complicated than trying to get a GC from a TN-1 (which I did--and not via marriage to USC, which I didn't consider as viable), especially when the TN-1 holder's birth country is one of those on "clobber-list" (exactly the case for this India-born erstwhile Canuck).	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-06-01 15:03:00
Canada	New fees- ouch!	AOS is really a total $1010 because you file for the I-131, I-485 and I-765 together for $1010 (also includes biometrics). The separate fees are only if you file each application separately (I think). True enough--filing as packet-deal has been known to be cheaper since 2007 (as not filing I-131 and I-765--although we wound up not needing AP or EAD, I still filed these as "better safe than sorry"--does not reduce the I-485 fee).	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-06-01 15:01:00
Canada	New fees- ouch!	Values (for VJ-related forms only): I-129F $455 (unless K-3) I-130 $355 I-131 $385 (incl biometrics $80) I-485 $930 I-751 $465 I-765 $340 http://www.uscis.gov...000b92ca60aRCRD Are the fees in anyway based on how much it actually costs to process things or just randomly set with the idea to make as much money as possible? Answer: it is a "safe" revenue-raiser for budget-planning (but the fees are NOT randomly raised, nor does it actually have to do with actual costs--other than those foisted on payER).	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-06-01 11:26:00
Canada	Embassy questions	2. There are lots of hotels (and B&B's) within 3 km of Consulate (I used one of the latter on Laval Av, can't remember its name).	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-06-02 14:47:00
Canada	Dual Citizen Baby	Your son will hold Canadian citizenship until he decides to file a CIT-030.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-06-23 08:01:00
Canada	Vaccinations for Canadians seeking residency in US	Public Health for your province should have a record of them since they are required for school. A lot of Canadians have had luck with their health department. Further, if that fails, you can get a titre test done by your doctor (should be covered by provincial health care) to scan for your anti-bodies Good luck. Commonest vaccines needed are MMR, varicella and TD. For the first two, titre works quite well.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-07-03 19:41:00
Canada	Driving a Rental Car into Canada	As long as you are a US resident/"greencard holder" there is no issue with it for Canada Customs purposes. Actually, they don't even mind if you are a temporary visa (such as TN-1) holder, or even if you have a US DL; I rented a car at DTW once in 1996 (when I still had my Alberta licence) and drove it to Ayr (near 401's exit 268) for a weekend.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-07-09 21:48:00
Canada	POE close to expiry date	You only need to enter by the expiry date. A solution: make a trip now and activate the visa, then return north and sell your stuff.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-07-20 19:55:00
Canada	Montreal Interview - Can We Fly From Detroit?	How about fly from Windsor (which inevitably will involve going through Pearson)?	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-09-03 14:07:00
Canada	whos In Maryland/washington?Northern Va	Why did you renounce ur cdn citizenship?? Because it proved a disaster when I applied for a job which required clearance.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-09-03 10:14:00
Canada	whos In Maryland/washington?Northern Va	Yes he is lol, bought a 3 hour drive there and back, but he also works at different locations so he goes to the office in Herndon then ends up at falls church, or Alexandria, even Waldorf one day. I cannot wait to live in Northern Virgina almost everywhere is nice except ummm leesburg we went to see some "apartments" in leesburg and well its just not the place for raising children or atleast not what I saw. You can try "Oaks At Falls Church" (2-BR/1BA no-den runs $1,400-1550 rent-plus-utilities) and the facing "Peachtree At McLean" (pricier than Oaks). Both located about 1 mile inside 495 on VA-7.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-09-02 12:03:00
Canada	whos In Maryland/washington?Northern Va	Would an erstwhile Canadian (naturalised to Canada 1982, renounced Canuck citizenship 2008) in Falls Church do?	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-09-02 12:00:00
Canada	Edmonton POE	.. was a SNAP! We were there early. VERY early. Our flight was delayed 2 hours due to chicago weather so we had a 4 hour wait in Edmonton. Lame. Anyway, we got to customs and I told the guy I was activateing our K1/K2 visas. He was listening to metallica at his little cubby so we talked about metallica for a bit. Then we were escorted to secondary processing where we sat and watched the news for about 20 minutes. They were really nice to my daughter and brought her a coloring book to entertain her. Eventually they called me up and he asked me my fiances name, then asked me about my kids "A" number. Apparently they gave her the same "A" number as I have which he found odd. I had no clue but he told me to email the consulate in Vancouver to double check. Anyway that was it. He stamped our passports, commented about the heat wave in the south, asked me how long the entire process took, and then photocopied it all. He kept our documents covered by the envelopes the entire time. Thats it! He was really super nice and sweet. Here I am in the south, sweating my brains out in this heat. 94 in September.. almost October! SHEESH. Wedding in one week, and we have out marriage license in hand. Can't wait! =) One question (from looking at your siggy). Why did you decide on K-1/K-2, when you could have just gotten married and done a straight AOS (with your TD dependent as derivative) at somewhat less cost (time and $$ of the I-129F petiton)?	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-09-24 13:32:00
Canada	IV Interview	thanks for the responce. How far is the panel physician in Montreal to the US consulate?. and do we get the result the same day? Sherbrooke St. (where I had my own CPIV medical) is maybe about 1 km from the Consulate--and you should probably allow 3 days for results (I don't know if since 1999, they've gotten any faster).	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-09-30 14:34:00
Canada	IV Interview	did you guys see how many Australian panel physicians there are in Canada?.. I think I counted at least 27.. I'm guessing at why there are so few US-panel physicians. Because lotsa Canucks head south on TN-1's (some--but not all--of whom convert them to H1-b's) and then do PERM-LC followed by AOS (including derivative TD/H4's), and very few of these choose CPIV.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-09-30 11:35:00
Canada	IV Interview	if you got that list from this site I think those are the panel physicians for people in Canada moving to Australia http://www.immi.gov....nel-doctors.htm which when you look at how many doctors they have available it is crazy why the US only has a handful of doctors for people moving to the US.. according to VJ these are the only panel physicians in Canada Addresses as of November 1st, 2008 BRITISH COLUMBIA Dr. Ian Morgan Woking Medical Services 1144 Burrard St., Suite 250 Vancouver, BC V6Z 2A5 604?681?8873 ONTARIO Dr. Howard Seiden & Associates Front?Frederick Health Services 145 Front Street East Toronto, ON M5A 1E3 416?362?5603 QUEBEC Medisys Health Group Inc. 500 Sherbrooke St., West #1100 Montreal, QC H3A 3C6 514?499?2772 1?800?499?1394 ext. 500 Dr. Howard Seiden & Associates Sanagex Medicine du Travail 5345 Blvd L’Assomption # 115 Montreal, QC H1T 4B3 1?866?362?5603 http://www.visajourn...da&cty=Montreal My mistake--I dogpiled, and then didn't check the logo at the top-left.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-09-30 08:24:00
Canada	IV Interview	Panel Physicians in AB and BC Alberta Calgary Medical Clinic Olive Medical Centre #101 Twinwood Building 117-17th Avenue NE Calgary T2E 1L7 Telephone: +1 403 276 8866 Fax: +1 403 230 2000 Doctor(s): Dr Anthony K S Lam Radiology Clinic Radiology Consultants Associated (Mayfair Place) 110, 6707 Elbow Drive SW Calgary T2V 0E3 Telephone: +1 403 777 3000 Fax: +1 403 777 3088 Edmonton Medical Clinic Dr Dominic M Leung Clinic 211, 9509-156 Street Edmonton T5P 4J5 Telephone: +1 780 483 3253 Fax: +1 780 483 3212 Doctor(s): Dr Dominic Leung Radiology Clinic Insight Medical Imaging West End Xray and Ultrasound B1, 9509-156th Street Edmonton T5P 4J5 Telephone: +1 780 483 3422 Fax: +1 780 484 0500 British Columbia Burnaby Medical Clinic Dr Stephen Reznek Clinic 110–4980 Kingsway Ground Floor (NE corner of Nelson Avenue and Bennett Street – enter off Bennett) Burnaby BC V5H 4K7 Telephone: +1 604 435 5585, 6 Fax: +1 604 435 5504 Doctor(s): Dr Stephen Reznek Radiology Clinic Brooke Radiology 100–4980 Kingsway Burnaby BC V5H 4K7 Telephone: +1 604 434 1345 Fax: +1 604 435 1309 Fort St John Medical Clinic Fort St John Medical Clinic 10011, 96th Street Fort St. John, BC Canada V1J 3P3 Telephone: +1 250 785 6677 Fax: +1 250 787 0109 Doctor(s): Dr Paul Vincent Mackey Kelowna Medical Clinic Glenmore Medical Clinic 1605 Gordon Drive Kelowna V1Y 3G8 Telephone: +1 250 762 2729 Fax: +1 250 762 3636 Doctor(s): Dr Dean A Griswold Radiology Clinic Kelowna Medical Imaging 101, 3330 Richter Street Kelowna BC V1Y 8B7 Telephone: +1 250 762 4420 Fax: +1 250 860 3449 Prince George Medical Clinic Dr Ann Neary and Dr Anthony Preston Clinic 311–1669 Victoria Street Prince George BC V2L 2L5 Telephone: +1 250 562 9388 Fax: +1 250 563 1122 Doctor(s): Dr Anne Neary Radiology Clinic Phoenix Medical Imaging Centre Suite 101–2155 10th Avenue BC V2M 5J6 Telephone: +1 250 563 0635 Fax: +1 250 563 1288 Vancouver Medical Clinic Dr W P Ciszak Medical Services Inc. 460–1144 Burrard Street Vancouver BC V6Z 2A5 Telephone: +1 604 682 5291 Fax: +1 604 682 5291 Doctor(s): Dr W P Ciszak Radiology Clinic General Medical Imaging Services Burrard Xray Centre 270–1144 Burrard Street Vancouver BC V6Z 2A5 Telephone: +1 604 689 8316 Fax: +1 604 689 8325 Victoria Medical Clinic Drs Ian Gibson and Linda Green Inc. 201–645 Fort Street Victoria BC V8W 1G2 Telephone: +1 250 385 4445 Fax: +1 250 920 7768 Doctor(s): Dr Linda Green Dr Ian Gibson Radiology Clinic CML Healthcare – Victoria 203-1120 Yates Street Victoria Telephone: +1 250 386 8305 Fax: +1 250 386 7788 Some filers decide to travel to Montreal early and combine the medical and interview in the same week. Saves travel to Vancouver but there is the added accommodation costs in Montreal. Either way it is inconvenient but unfortunately that's the way it is. Those in AB don't need to travel to Vancouver anyway for IV medicals--hello!	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-09-30 07:46:00
Canada	IV Interview	OMG getting medical exam in Vancouver. then to be interviewed in Montreal..Does the MTL consulate realized how far is this? somehow this has to be done on a case to case basis... i have a two year old daugther and a 0ne month old son.. There is a simple (non)solution to it--make a week-plus trip to Montreal and have the medical there (essentially what I did in 1999).	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-09-30 07:39:00
Canada	IV Interview	Hi there. I am from Alberta Canada and I know that the US Consolate in Montreal process all US Immigrant Interview. My question is Is anybody here from Canada have requested that the interview be transfered to the closest US consolate which is closest to thier address. Like for example Calgary is the closest from Edmonton? So would they do that interview in calgary instead of Montreal? Please let me know? Prior to 1986 (I know my sister's 1985 interview was done in Calgary), it was possible. Sometime between then and 1999 (my own EB-3 IV interview, 1999/12/13--from a TN-1), State Department decided to "consolidate" all IV interviews at Montreal. You can request it, but it won't be granted--you will have to "bite bullet" and make the trip to Montreal. (I lived in Calgary 1971/09/12 to 1993/12/30)	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-09-29 13:03:00
Canada	Help Downloading Forms	It's doing the same thing! I can read the instructions but not the forms. It's so weird. Guess I'll try again tomorrow. Maybe technology is just upset with me at the moment and needs to sleep on it haha. Two alternate suggestions: go to your nearest public library and use the computers/internet there--and print out the forms ($0.10-0.20/page) go to a FedEx-Office (erstwhile Kinko's) location and use a machine there (lots pricier than the public library, but will work--and lots less $$ anyway than you're going to fork-out to USCIS)	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-10-05 13:14:00
Canada	OHIP	Technically, no--when you cease to be resident of a Province, your Provincial Healthcare is hosed.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-10-06 12:18:00
Canada	Brining food products into the US?	Are you going through Customs at Dorval or just catching a connecting flight? I know my sister had her fruit confiscated at MCO on a flight from MAN.... but it was in her hand luggage. With the x-ray machines all the luggage goes through now they may see the mangoes as suspicious and remove them anyway. To clarify--I haven't booked any such flight, but asking it hypothetically, using a return connexion path of MAA-(EUR)-YUL-IAD so as to be able to use the PFI at Dorval (which I suspect WOULD require clearance of Canuck customs before going to the PFI).	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-10-08 18:13:00
Canada	Brining food products into the US?	I'll reask an old question. What would happen if I book a return trip Dulles to Chennai with a transit through Dorval on the return-journey, and carry some mangoes back in my luggage?	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-10-08 11:59:00
Canada	Brining food products into the US?	And on produce--the PFI's are generally quite lax in that regard (I've brought vegetables through more than a few times--in plain-old shopping bags, not even hidden). I'm guessing that they think "well, it's passed Canada's guidelines so it should be ok for US as well". Edited by Saddle Bronc, 07 October 2010 - 10:33 AM.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-10-07 10:33:00
Canada	Any ideas for Xmas gifts?	How about Product-19, Total and Wheaties? (eh, since these fill the specification....)	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-10-22 11:47:00
Canada	Throwing in the towel with the US immigration	The OP could move somewhere close to the border. I live pretty close to Detroit and flights are cheap out of there. Best of both worlds? But if you maintain residences on both sides of border, then the tax-laws are a bulker-load of migraines.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-10-29 14:09:00
Canada	POE Montreal-Trudeau	I'll weigh-in by proxy on this. I got my GC (EB-3) at Montreal 1999/12/13, and activated it later the same day at Dorval (now Trudeau) POE. Four hours is plenty of time. They will basically take the brown-envelope, hand you an I-94 with "K-1" and the expiry-date printed, and staple it to your passport (edit: for me they took an index-print and stamped I-551--the latter will NOT be done for K-1). As far as that X-ray, you won't need it after you exit the PFI successfully.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2010-11-04 13:00:00
Canada	USC child under 1 travelling to Canada by car	You may need to check if your husband has to get one even with a GC but citizens of Algeria require a visa to visit Canada. US Green Card holders need no visa to visit Canada--but the analogous reverse is not true, if you need visa to visit US "ordinarily" you will need it to do so if you hold Canada-PR as well (prior to 2001, citizens of Commonwealth Countries with Canada-PR could visit without visa).	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2011-05-30 18:41:00
Canada	Part 7 of Form 400 for Naturalization	I looked up the instructions (which may NOT be much more helpful), which say "list every trip that lasted 24+ hours".	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2011-05-31 13:58:00
Canada	JETS JETS JETS!	Atlanta does seem to be an excellent farm for Canadian teams--as it was 30 years ago that another Atlanta team (Flames) went to Calgary, history repeats itself with Thrashers!	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2011-06-01 10:45:00
Canada	Possible to do Medical and Interview in Same Week?	Yes--if the medical is on Monday and the interview on Friday.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2011-06-01 12:43:00
Canada	Need direction in Montreal	How about go to the hotel, then use the Metro & Bus (or walk--for which downtown Montreal is excellent) to go to Medisys?	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2011-06-01 13:29:00
Canada	Canada Post	So FedEx it!	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2011-06-01 10:43:00
Canada	Best way to get last check	Swap over to TD Bank and use a "Borderless" account as the destination for the funds.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2011-06-10 18:03:00
Canada	POE Toronto, which airline?	There isn't a specific terminal by airline at YYZ. Choose whichsoever airline gets you closest to your destination.	Saddle Bronc	Male	0	2011-06-22 20:25:00