People that travel a lot for work...

[KST8FAN]

Just did a two week tour in Canada (Calgary, Yorkton via Regina).  Anyone ever had issues with Canadian Border Security?


Tom

[Kat Kid]

Just did a two week tour in Canada (Calgary, Yorkton via Regina).  Anyone ever had issues with Canadian Border Security?


Tom

My grandparents have a cottage in Ontario that all the aunts/uncles/cousins share now and an aunt was stuck driving a station wagon loaded with 5 elementary school age kids and was asked where we were going and said the name of the town, and then what were we going to be doing there and said "a rock concert, what the hell does it look like?"

She got pulled over and all the kids got interviewed and stuff.


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[star seed 7]

Just did a two week tour in Canada (Calgary, Yorkton via Regina).  Anyone ever had issues with Canadian Border Security?


Tom

My mom's husband has. He's Canadian and I guess spent too much time in the US and they thought he was going to defect or something. I didn't really understand the problem. It took two years after they married to get a permanent visa and tax number and stuff so he could work here and not get hassled by the Canucks

I don't think you'll have that problem tho Tom 

[KST8FAN]

Just did a two week tour in Canada (Calgary, Yorkton via Regina).  Anyone ever had issues with Canadian Border Security?


Tom

My mom's husband has. He's Canadian and I guess spent too much time in the US and they thought he was going to defect or something. I didn't really understand the problem. It took two years after they married to get a permanent visa and tax number and stuff so he could work here and not get hassled by the Canucks

I don't think you'll have that problem tho Tom 

I've had co-workers under go additional interrogation, and we had some consultants denied entrance. I'm 3:3 getting thru, but stress about it every time I go.

Tom

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[star seed 7]

Did your coworkers have a dui in their past? That gets a lot of people when trying to get into the country

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Just did a two week tour in Canada (Calgary, Yorkton via Regina).  Anyone ever had issues with Canadian Border Security?


Tom

Yep.  We're not fans of each other.

[KST8FAN]

Did your coworkers have a dui in their past? That gets a lot of people when trying to get into the country

No DUI but when there on business they seem really sensitive to whether or not you might be doing work that a Canadian could be doing.

Tom

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[halfEmpty]

Now that I have a family I don't travel much for work anymore except the occasional site or client visit.  Before that though, I spent the better part of 3 years living in a hotel.  6 months straight and then 3 weeks on, 1 week back in my home office after that.  I got rid of most of my personal belongings and what i didn't sat in storage.  I paid a friend a couple hundred to sleep on his couch 1 week a month and had my mail forwarded to the hotel.  Pretty glad those days are behind me.

[ben ji]

Cross post from "people who buy crap thread"

In NYC now for a conference where some of our customers and other potential customers are exhibiting. It's alot easier to get someone to respond to you when you when you can say "I met your boss/CEO/co-worker at XYZ conference, they told me about your current widget needs and recommend i reach out to you to learn more about how you use widgets"

That and of course boozing with everyone in the evening.