# Denied entrance into Canada. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 24, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denied-entrance-into-canada/393504 "2007-02-24T13:35:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denied-entrance-into-canada/393504/21 "2007-02-24T19:06:05Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster] And then you’ll be denied entry someday for consorting with people known as ‘trouble’ to customs 😛 [/QUOTE] Heh. My Wife and I came back from Mexico and where asked by the customs agent if we where both Ameican citizens. My wife and I look about as USA white bread as it comes. We both replied “sie”. (not sure how that should be spelled). After a couple of weeks down south, we both responded the way we would have for the last couple of weeks to say yes. The customs agent thought that we where making fun of her, when in fact, we where just trying to get home. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denied-entrance-into-canada/393504/22 "2007-02-24T19:48:47Z")
I thought I’d seen something similar about formerly naughty Canadians wanting to get into the US, so I poked around on your [www.uscis.gov](http://www.uscis.gov) website. Looks like you have a similar policy (although, given your country’s paranoia these days, I wonder how many of these applications get accepted) - [Application for Advance Permission to Enter as a Non-Immigrant](http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=68db2c1a6855d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD&vgnextchannel=db029c7755cb9010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denied-entrance-into-canada/393504/23 "2007-02-25T03:31:53Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster] And then you’ll be denied entry someday for consorting with people known as ‘trouble’ to customs 😛 [/QUOTE] A few years ago I purchased a pimp mobile (Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham d’Elegance with all the options) through the local chapter head of Satan’s Choice / Hell’s Angels. It had been used by one of his people to make regular trips from southern Florida to northern Ontario. The car was a pain in the ass, for people kept following me, and striking up “conversations” when I parked. This kept happening even when I was several hundred kilometers out of town. You can imagine what an adventure it was the first time I took it across the border. After a couple of years, I gave it to a bag lady at Christmas when she came knocking at my door asking if she could have the trash at the curb. She was asking for a lamp that I had left out with the garbage, and ended up with a car. I have not had a delay crossing the border since I gave away the pimp mobile. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denied-entrance-into-canada/393504/24 "2007-02-25T15:25:51Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] > [@Canadjun](#): > > See [Criminal Inadmissibility](http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/inadmissibility.html) and [Overcoming Criminal Inadmissibility](http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/conviction.html). Seems like the OP should have been “deemed rehabilitated” on the spot. -FrL- [/quote] If you take a look at the link on “Overcoming Criminal Admissibility”, it says that you can be deemed rehabilitated at the border, without a formal application, but only for small - to - medium type offences: > [@](#): > > In all cases, you may only be deemed rehabilitated if the offence committed would be punishable in Canada by a maximum term of imprisonment of **less than 10 years.** If the fellow was convicted of a trafficking offence 30 years ago, that would have been when the _Narcotic Control Act_ was in force in Canada. > [@](#): > > **4.** (1) No person shall traffic in a narcotic or any substance represented or held out by him to be a narcotic. > … > (3) Every person who violates subsection (1) or (2) is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for life. So, since trafficking would have been punishable in Canada by a maximum term of life imprisonment, someone convicted of a drug trafficking advance wouldn’t be eligible for deemed rehabilitation at the border - under the federal policy, would have had to make a formal application for rehabilitation before turning up at the border. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denied-entrance-into-canada/393504/25 "2007-02-25T15:45:51Z")
[QUOTE=Northern Piper] If you take a look at the link on “Overcoming Criminal Admissibility”, it says that you can be deemed rehabilitated at the border, without a formal application, but only for small - to - medium type offences: If the fellow was convicted of a trafficking offence 30 years ago, that would have been when the _Narcotic Control Act_ was in force in Canada. So, since trafficking would have been punishable in Canada by a maximum term of life imprisonment, someone convicted of a drug trafficking advance wouldn’t be eligible for deemed rehabilitation at the border - under the federal policy, would have had to make a formal application for rehabilitation before turning up at the border. [/QUOTE] Interesting, and thank you. I thought that he was maybe not telling the whole story to his ex. The term ‘Formal application for rehabilitation’ makes me snicker though. I never new that you could apply to be rehabilitated. Perhaps Brittney could go this route? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denied-entrance-into-canada/393504.md?page=1)