Hey everyone!
For those that have crossed the US / Canadian border recently: what was your experience when going through US customs? Were you harassed / detained? Any tips to prepare for crossing?
My SO and I were talking earlier about having some family come up from the US to Canada to visit us. I suggested maybe they should wait a bit due to the apparent unhinged behaviour of US Customs; However, while my SO doesn't deny the stories, she believes they might be rare cases & blown out of proportion by the media. She found out that the Vancouver woman that was detained for ~2 weeks also had improper paperwork - which is often left out by the media. While the detainment duration is still totally unjustified, the initial detainment was caused by the improper paperwork.
So I'm reaching out to those that actually cross the border to see what's actually going on; as the media can be fanatical sometimes.
Thanks in advance!
I recently crossed at Pearson, and it was very much not out of the ordinary. I said why I was visiting, where I was staying and when I was flying back, they didn’t ask for documentation, didn’t check my phone. May be different when crossing a land border tho, I assume the border agents who are based out of Toronto/Vancouver/Montreal are more chill than the ones based out of a US city.