New England & Canada - CDN customs/immigration?

[phabric]

We will be on the New England & Canada Cruise from New York to Quebec City.

 

When we get off the ship in Quebec City to fly home to Toronto, Canada, will we have to go through any custom/immigration dockside like in Fort Lauderdale, FL?

[racj846]

Probably not.

Presumably there are other Canadian ports-of-call prior to Quebec City, in which case you would go through Canada Customs, etc at the first Canadian port call.

[phabric]

The ports are

New York

Newport

 Boston

Bar Harbor

Saint John, NB

Halifax, NS

Sydney, NS

Charlottetown, PEI

Quebec City

[cruzrbachoua]

We went the opposite direction and before we dropped anchor for Bar Harbor we had to meet the agents and show our passports.  I would think that for yours they would do it before docking in Saint John or as you get off in Saint John.

[DrivesLikeMario]

Agree - St. John.

[fishywood]

1 hour ago, cruzrbachoua said:

We went the opposite direction and before we dropped anchor for Bar Harbor we had to meet the agents and show our passports.  I would think that for yours they would do it before docking in Saint John or as you get off in Saint John.

I did the same other than continue on to Ft Lauderdale. Passport check onboard in Bar Harbor but disembarking still entailed the full normal procedure.

 

The OP really needs a response from someone who has recently disembarked in Quebec City. (For that they may want to ask on the boards of a line that sails there almost year round such as HAL, or the Canada/New England ports board). As the airports in the Province of Quebec still require hand written Customs forms (unlike most major ones in the rest of Canada which have gone to electronic processing [as they have at the cruiseport in Vancouver]) it is a possibility when arriving by ship as well.

[racj846]

Customs and immigration inspection will take place immediately before or during disembarkation in Saint John, since that is the first Canadian entry point on this cruise.

 

Note it is Saint John NB, not to be confused with St John's, Newfoundland.  They are very particular about that!!

[lstone19]

You will probably find Canadian Immigration and Customs to be far less a thing than entering or returning to the U.S. I've cruised into Canada three times in the last three years - once stopping before returning to the U.S. and twice ending in Canada (Vancouver). It appears all Immigration checks are done behind the scenes based on the passport information collected by Princess at check-in.

 

IIRC, on the one stopping in Canada (2016), we filled out Canada Customs declarations on-board and returned them to the room steward. Disembarking, there were no checks.

 

For the two ending in Vancouver, both in 2018, one from Whittier and one from Seattle (one-night cruise), I believe Customs declaration cards were distributed on-board. Disembarking, passports were not checked (we were specifically told we did not need them out) and the Customs declaration cards were collected with no further interaction as we walked out.

[Fouremco]

Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) procedures for clearing cruise ships arriving in Canada can be found by following the link below. Cruise ships, including passengers and crew, are fully cleared by the CBSA at their first port of arrival (FPOA) in Canada, Saint John in this case. Depending on a number of factors (see procedures) the OP may be able to just walk off the ship and not have to report to a CBSA officer.

 

https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel-voyage/cscp-pdnc-eng.html

 

When you arrive in Halifax and subsequent ports, there will be no CBSA interest in the ship, its crew or its passengers.