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Canada?
Posted on 5/12/17 at 1:46 pm
Posted on 5/12/17 at 1:46 pm
What you think?
This post was edited on 2/9/18 at 1:40 pm
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Posted on 5/12/17 at 1:47 pm to GermantownTiger
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Any of you guys know anyon who's been in this situation?
You know they throw you in Canada jail for this, right?
Posted on 5/12/17 at 1:48 pm to upgrayedd
Is that like American jail, but more polite?
Posted on 5/12/17 at 1:49 pm to GermantownTiger
LINK
Exceptions To The 10 Year Restriction
If you are convicted of a DUI, it still may be possible to gain entry to Canada during the ten year restriction. However, it will take planning, effort and help.
In order to enter Canada with a DUI conviction on your records, you will either need to be deemed “rehabilitated” or granted a temporary resident permit.
A person is deemed rehabilitated if he has no criminal convictions for a minimum of 5 years after the completion of the imposed sentence.
Exceptions To The 10 Year Restriction
If you are convicted of a DUI, it still may be possible to gain entry to Canada during the ten year restriction. However, it will take planning, effort and help.
In order to enter Canada with a DUI conviction on your records, you will either need to be deemed “rehabilitated” or granted a temporary resident permit.
A person is deemed rehabilitated if he has no criminal convictions for a minimum of 5 years after the completion of the imposed sentence.
Posted on 5/12/17 at 1:49 pm to Displaced
quote:
Is that like American jail, but more polite?
Posted on 5/12/17 at 1:49 pm to HornsLife
Yeah I was curious if anyone had applied for a TRO before
Posted on 5/12/17 at 1:49 pm to GermantownTiger
I didn't know that this was a thing.
Posted on 5/12/17 at 1:49 pm to Displaced
quote:
Is that like American jail, but more polite?
Yep, and they put you to work on the syrup farm.
Posted on 5/12/17 at 1:50 pm to Displaced
quote:
Is that like American jail, but more polite?
Yep, with more denim.
Posted on 5/12/17 at 1:52 pm to GermantownTiger
Buddy got shut down at the border when in Seattle for the UW LSU game. DWI several years before the trip.
Posted on 5/12/17 at 1:53 pm to CoachChappy
Sadly it is.
Posted on 5/12/17 at 1:54 pm to GermantownTiger
I when on a goose hunt up in Canada, one of the older guys we were with had gotten a DUI in the 80s. It popped up and the Canadian airport police (Mounties?) took him to the back and when through his luggage and asked him some basic questions and let us go.
Posted on 5/12/17 at 1:55 pm to Displaced
Posted on 5/12/17 at 1:55 pm to Jimmy2shoes
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Buddy got shut down at the border when in Seattle for the UW LSU game. DWI several years before the trip.
Canada won't let people in for DWI but the US releases Mexican criminals back on the streets of the US and everyone says Canada is some sort of utopia for immigrants.
Posted on 5/12/17 at 2:00 pm to GermantownTiger
Been there. Entered Canada via Thousands Island bridge in 2004. Was asked to pull over. They asked my wife and I to go inside the border patrol/customs building. I was questioned about my alcohol fueled transgressions in the college years inclusive of 1991-1994. They didn't stop me from entering but I was held up to pay some sort of DUI waiver fee of around $250. So, it's not about safety, it's about money.
Fast forward to 2014 and we go to Niagara Fall with the family (wife + 2 boys now ages 4 & 6 at the time). We drive across and the border guard closes his window for a second and my heart drops. He opens it and says "Pull over, eh" (I added the "eh" part). Border guard comes out, pulls me out of the vehicle in front of the kids and then asks if I had trouble getting through customs in 2004. I said yes, told him the story, he walked in the building, came back out, gave me my passport and said "Enjoy Canada with your family." He then walked over to the car and told the boys something like "We were just confirming your reservation at Great Wolf Lodge and told them to make sure they have the water slides ready!" or something like that.
Fast forward to 2014 and we go to Niagara Fall with the family (wife + 2 boys now ages 4 & 6 at the time). We drive across and the border guard closes his window for a second and my heart drops. He opens it and says "Pull over, eh" (I added the "eh" part). Border guard comes out, pulls me out of the vehicle in front of the kids and then asks if I had trouble getting through customs in 2004. I said yes, told him the story, he walked in the building, came back out, gave me my passport and said "Enjoy Canada with your family." He then walked over to the car and told the boys something like "We were just confirming your reservation at Great Wolf Lodge and told them to make sure they have the water slides ready!" or something like that.
Posted on 5/12/17 at 2:05 pm to GermantownTiger
Can you get in Canada on probation?
I didn't know about any of this.
Eta - not alcohol related probation
I didn't know about any of this.
Eta - not alcohol related probation
This post was edited on 5/12/17 at 2:08 pm
Posted on 5/12/17 at 2:15 pm to GermantownTiger
quote:
Any of you guys know anyon who's been in this situation?
Stayed in Niagra Falls for the LSU game. I personally drove into Canada with someone who had a DWI in 2012.
He was worried as hell that he wouldn't be admitted, but we drove in and out on three separate occasions, they scanned his passport each time, and he never got so much as a question about it.
Posted on 5/12/17 at 2:19 pm to GermantownTiger
A guy I know moved to Canada a few years ago, after he got married, and he had to jump through a million hoops. He had to prove that he would be working as soon as he moved there and had to regularly check in with a government worker to show he was employed. He also had to prove that he was working on becoming a Canadian citizen and not just there to b.s. and not be legal. So, yeah this doesn't surprise me. Canada doesn't want riff raff in their country.
Posted on 5/12/17 at 2:22 pm to FalseProphet
I do wonder what effect an Article 894 plea has on this. Doesn't that mean the conviction is never entered? Thus, would an 894 DUI count for exclusion purposes?
Posted on 5/12/17 at 2:25 pm to upgrayedd
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Yep, and they put you to work on the syrup farm.
Maple Syrup? I'm on my way to the border.
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