7 hours, 23 Pokémon & 4 Gameboy resets later, we arrived at Montreal.
We approached border control, each with our little wallet of print-outs.
I showed my work-holiday ‘letter of invitation’ and got ushered to the appropriate room where I took a ticket & waited. Etienne was next, no working Visa for him, but we were hoping they’d give him the full 6 months tourist allowance, so we’d printed EVERYTHING. (Bank statements, resignation letter, his P45, spreadsheet of our plans & evidence of our ticket out of Seattle). Don’t think they looked at any of it. Just stamped him on through.
He joined me in the room waiting til my ticket was called. I shuffled up, with my own little stack of paper. This time they took a proper look through so we were glad for everything this time around! Some very simple Q’s while they looked through. Then, a smile, a stamp & a “Welcome to Canada”.
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