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Clearing immigration in St. John's?

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  • 24-05-2015 5:34pm
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    breadmonkey
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    I'm looking at flights with Westjet which go Dublin --> St. John's --> Toronto --> Vancouver. It's a bit of a convoluted route but their baggage fees/policies are quite favourable so that's why I'm going with them (entering on a study permit, not for a holiday).

    It's my understanding that I will need to clear Canadian immigration at the first point of landing in the country. I had a search of this forum and couldn't find any mention of anyone specifically doing this in St. John's.

    I've got a 3.5 hour stopover at St. John's which I gather would be a comfortable amount of time to clear immigration. However, the stopover in Toronto is too short (only an hour and a half) so I just want to make sure I can do it in St. John's before booking.

    Anyone able to confirm?


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    circular flexing
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    breadmonkey wrote: »
    I'm looking at flights with Westjet which go Dublin --> St. John's --> Toronto --> Vancouver. It's a bit of a convoluted route but their baggage fees/policies are quite favourable so that's why I'm going with them (entering on a study permit, not for a holiday).

    It's my understanding that I will need to clear Canadian immigration at the first point of landing in the country. I had a search of this forum and couldn't find any mention of anyone specifically doing this in St. John's.

    I've got a 3.5 hour stopover at St. John's which I gather would be a comfortable amount of time to clear immigration. However, the stopover in Toronto is too short (only an hour and a half) so I just want to make sure I can do it in St. John's before booking.

    Anyone able to confirm?

    Yes you will definitely do immigration at St John's.


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    TYBG
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    Hey, similar situation, flying into Toronto and on towards Vancouver. So I go through immigration in Toronto? Does anyone have an estimate of how long it takes to get through immigration?


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    breadmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 3,608 ✭✭✭breadmonkey


    TYBG wrote: »
    Hey, similar situation, flying into Toronto and on towards Vancouver. So I go through immigration in Toronto? Does anyone have an estimate of how long it takes to get through immigration?

    The threads I found in here suggested 2.5 to 3 hours between connecting flights to be comfortable.


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