Experience after enjoyment

By Maya bhat -
This incident happened while we were returning tired after enjoying to the max from niagara falls. As you know Niagara falls are massive waterfalls on the Niagara River, straddling the international border separating the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Maine.We had come from US part of niagara.. Since we were not sure of the route to nigara falls wehad taken the help of GPS (Global Positioning System  is  a system that helps to determine their current location and time; velocity and direction can be determined using multiple readings and receivers, respectively) which made us reach correctly but unfortunately while starting back from falls it took us to beyond canadian border which we realised after its too late. When realised we tried to move back as we had not canadian visa but it was too late as the immigration check at border had caught us with the wrong entry.. They asked for passport, visas and so on but since we did not have any canadian visa and DS document as we were in J1 visa they asked us to visit the canadian embassy. When visited there we told about the GPS problem and we were surprised to see that we were not the only one there were many others who had suffered this problem but to our dismay they asked us to go back to US as we had no visa of canada with a form which we were supposed to show when we enter US border.We thought may be we could go back with no other troubles.But no... it was wrong

Next was story from US border. When we reached US Border again at the check and after seeing the form they asked us to visit US embassy office. When reached embassy we were again surprised to see same people seen at canadian embassy with same problem.. There was a lot of crowd and seeing which we were not sure whats the time of our turn and also thinking what investigations will be done,,, almost scared... but our turn came soon and to our dismay there was nothing much but officer warned us not to ever go anywhere without DS document.That was the end of all....

But cant this problem be solved since due to GPS many people new to US or place commit this mistake....


Anyways this is called experience after a good entertainment or enjoyment....................

Take care


Comments

  1. manjunathSeptember 11, 2008 at 3:30 PM

    That is called a whole new level of fun. Lessons learnt

    1. Never take orders from a machine.
    2. Never leave a country without passport and documents.
    3. Understand the security is there for the protection.

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