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FLAGPOLING YOUR WAY TO A NEW WORK OR STUDY PERMIT, OR PERMANENT
RESIDENCE
How to Flagpole at the US Border and
Secure Your Status
WHAT THE HECK IS FLAGPOLING?
Flagpoling means applying for the renewal of your work (or study) permit by leaving Canada at a
border crossing with the USA, and re-entering, usually immediately. The same practice is also used
for those seeking to validate their PR status and/or PR visa. In other words, you take a trip
“around the flagpole” and re-enter Canada where you present your documentation and get that new
work or study permit stamp in your passport.
Why do people do this odd little hack? Because it saves a lot of time:
If you apply for a renewal of your work or study permit by mailing your application to
IRCC-Vegreville, it will take up to or even morethan 16 weeks for you to get your renewed permit
approved, depending upon your situation. (Paper applications take much more time than online
applications. If you can, always renew online.)
If you are a temporary resident of Canada and you need to validate your
● Confirmation of Permanent Residence or,
● Permanent Resident Visa.
You can also apply to your nearest IRCC office by calling IRCC’s Call Centre at 1-888-242-2100 in
order to book an appointment. Please note that you must call this number from inside Canada.
Or, you can leave Canada and return through an international airport in Canada, or by the land
border. Clearly, leaving and returning by a land border with the USA is a much faster and cheaper
option. Here’s how it works:
● By flagpoling, you reduce that wait for an appointment with an immigration officer
● Or, for your work or study visa application to be renewed, you reduce the wait time from a
few months, to a matter of minutes at the Canadian customs building at the border. If you
are not sure if you can flagpole for your particular work or study permit
extension/renewal, please read the comments of this article where many
helpful people have shared their flagpoling experiences.
● Or in the case of temporary residents wishing to validate their new PR status, flagpoling
offers a quick and cheap alternative to waiting weeks or even months for an appointment at
your local IRCC office.
Of course, your total time with the trip to the border, often in your car or a rented car – which you
should park on the Canadian side as crossing the border by foot is quicker – is a matter of
hours in total. Maybe even the better part of a day. That’s still a lot less than waiting weeks for your
new permit, or an appointment to validate your PR status at a IRCC office.
Seems too good to be true, right? There are some views that suggest that the Canadian Border
Services Agency (CBSA) does not like the practice as it turns border agents into immigration case
officers processing individuals who – strictly speaking – should have their cases done by the people
at IRCC’s case processing centres. There apparently have been meetings and conversations within
IRCC about how to discourage flagpoling, and theoretically, you could be caught in a no-man’s-land
at the border if Canada refuses you re-entry. Here’s why:
