With Good Friday falling on 10 April this year, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) issued an advisory on 3 April urging travellers to expect heavier traffic at land crossings and airports and to have proper documentation ready—especially consent letters for children travelling without both parents. CBSA recommends that motorists use less-busy border points such as Prescott-Ogdensburg and Lansdowne instead of the busiest crossings at Windsor–Detroit and Fort Erie–Buffalo, where wait times can exceed 90 minutes during holiday peaks.
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To streamline these preparations, travellers can lean on services like VisaHQ, which assists with obtaining visas, electronic travel authorizations, invitation letters and other cross-border paperwork for Canada and more than 200 destinations. Their dedicated Canada portal (https://www.visahq.com/canada/) provides step-by-step guidance, live support and overnight courier options, making it easier for families and corporate mobility teams to compile the right documents before they reach CBSA officers.
Travellers carrying poultry, cannabis or homemade food risk seizure if they do not declare the items. For expatriate families on short home-leave trips and foreign assignees returning from U.S. meetings, the agency advises using the ArriveCAN app’s Advance CBSA Declaration feature to shave up to 40 % off kiosk time at major airports. Companies with employees relocating over the holiday should build extra buffer time into move-dates and consider Saturday flights to avoid Thursday/Friday congestion. Logistics providers moving household goods across the border must ensure drivers have printed inventories and know the client’s work-permit category to present if questioned. CBSA adds that Nexus enrolment centres will operate extended hours from 8 to 14 April to process backlogged renewals, offering another opportunity for frequent cross-border business travellers.
To streamline these preparations, travellers can lean on services like VisaHQ, which assists with obtaining visas, electronic travel authorizations, invitation letters and other cross-border paperwork for Canada and more than 200 destinations. Their dedicated Canada portal (https://www.visahq.com/canada/) provides step-by-step guidance, live support and overnight courier options, making it easier for families and corporate mobility teams to compile the right documents before they reach CBSA officers.
Travellers carrying poultry, cannabis or homemade food risk seizure if they do not declare the items. For expatriate families on short home-leave trips and foreign assignees returning from U.S. meetings, the agency advises using the ArriveCAN app’s Advance CBSA Declaration feature to shave up to 40 % off kiosk time at major airports. Companies with employees relocating over the holiday should build extra buffer time into move-dates and consider Saturday flights to avoid Thursday/Friday congestion. Logistics providers moving household goods across the border must ensure drivers have printed inventories and know the client’s work-permit category to present if questioned. CBSA adds that Nexus enrolment centres will operate extended hours from 8 to 14 April to process backlogged renewals, offering another opportunity for frequent cross-border business travellers.
