[pct-l] Canada entry permit

[Jim & Janet Ake]

Same story here.  We sent photo copies of our driver's license and apparently they want color copies of your passports.  The application was not that specific about which one to use.  Anyway, we forgot to put our phone number any where so he called our son whom we had listed as a contact.  Got our e-mail and phone number and called us in the evening.  Which meant he was working after normal office hours.

He was just as nice as could be.

Janet 






--- On Sat, 2/20/10, Joan Henriksen <joan.henriksen at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Joan Henriksen <joan.henriksen at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Canada entry permit
> To: "PCT" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 5:24 AM
> I would expect that it might take
> some time for the Canadian Border
> Application to process.  I also received a personal
> call from the agent in
> charge of the applications.  I had the same issue as
> Stray Wolf.  He told me
> that he is going to start sending them back at the end of
> this week.  I also
> was surprised that he called me.  He told me that
> technically he is allowed
> to just deny them when they do not have all the information
> but that a lot
> of people made the same mistake about sending a passport
> photocopy.  So he
> decided to call everyone personally. Awesome, right?
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Jim Bravo <jimbravo at wildblue.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > Ellen, et al:
> >
> > I got a phone call from the Canada Border Services
> Agency the other day
> > because I had failed to provide a photocopy of my US
> passport. Couldn't
> > believe the personal service. The fellow was very
> personable, and we talked
> > for 5 or 10 minutes. At one point he said "You
> wouldn't believe how many
> > people are hiking this trail". Anyway, it appears they
> are swamped.
> >
> > He said that if I emailed the photocopy as an
> attachment then "I can put it
> > in the other big pile". I sent the email, and he sent
> a nice reply that he
> > had received it! Am I dreaming, what government agency
> does this? Got to
> > love those Canadians. Anyway, my application is
> presumably in the "other
> > big
> > pile" now! If you've sent in an app, it's in one of
> the big piles.
> >
> > Jim
> > (Stray Wolf)
> >
> > >I sent off for my Canada entry permit the same day
> I sent for my trail
> > >permit; still haven't seen the Canada one. 
> How long should this take?
> > >Neither my husband nor I have any legal issues.
> > > Elderly Ellen
> >
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