Speaking of license plate renewal, I have a 3rd hand story to share.
My wife's coworker has a friend who was on a work visa and was applying for permanent residence status. One of the requirements to switch over to PR is to "leave Canada" and come back to the residency status change.
Many people just drive to the nearest US border and turnaround to satisfy the "leave Canada and come back" requirement. The friend did that on a Saturday afternoon driving to the Montana border and turned back.
Everything went well, the friend went to the States and came back to Canada. But upon coming back at the Canadian border patrol, a police officer there noticed that her license plate had expired, issued her a ticket. But they would not allow her to drive off.
So what do you do in the middle of nowhere and no vehicle?
She had to call a friend to drive all the way down from Calgary to the border to rescue her. That took a few hours. And then they were trying to go to a registry in the next small town to get the license renewed, but of course it was closed because it was a weekend. At the end, they had to go back to Calgary, waited for Monday morning, got the license plate renewed and drove all the way back to the border to pick up the car.
The border patrol was "nice enough" not to impound her car and let her parked there for free over the weekend.
The total cost for this little mishap? Back and forth driving between Calgary and the Montana border, lost wages for 2 people taking Monday off, plus gas, paying off the ticket, etc - probably close to $2K.
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