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Posted date : Sep 10, 2025

We are longtime CSA members and Canadian citizens who winter in the Palm Springs area and have done so for the last 13 years. We usually go down around the middle of October and come back at the end of March…

Posted date : Sep 10, 2025

CSANews Issue 136 Fall 2025 Edition – And the survey says…is back. One of our favourite and fun things to do is our biannual survey of snowbirds. We have detailed the main responses – later in this issue – and hope that you enjoy the results. This is what your friends and fellow snowbirds are thinking right now…

Posted date : Jul 22, 2025

CSA Member Advisory – CSA would like to clarify recent media reports about the new U.S. “visa integrity fee.” Please note that this fee does not apply to Canadian citizens who are visiting the United States temporarily as tourists, including those spending the winter in the U.S. as snowbirds.

Posted date : Jul 15, 2025

CSANews Issue 135 Summer 2025 Edition – The Dog Days of Summer have arrived! Overwhelming heat and very hot weather are just the tonic for winter blues. (Do snowbirds actually have winter blues?) Right now, Canada is under what they are referring to as a “Heat Dome.”

Posted date : May 21, 2025

Regardless of your political views, the proposed tariffs on Canadian goods are driving down the Canadian dollar and turning friends and family off, regarding visiting Florida. Many snowbirds are seriously considering other winter locations…

Posted date : May 21, 2025

We winter every year in California for five months – from Nov 1 to March 31. This coming fall, we plan to spend three weeks in Hawaii prior to leaving for California. When we fly home from Hawaii, we plan to spend two weeks at home before heading to California. My question is, do I have to count the two weeks at home as time spent in the U.S.?

Posted date : Apr 10, 2025

The Canadian Snowbird Association (CSA) appreciates the opportunity to provide comments on the Interim Final Rule on “Alien Registration Form and Evidence of Registration” as released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Posted date : Apr 4, 2025

In response to U.S. tariffs on Canadian-made goods, Canada has imposed a 25% counter tariff on certain U.S. products brought into Canada. The CBSA is collecting the tariffs on behalf of the Government of Canada in the form of a surtax.

Posted date : Feb 27, 2025

Bud graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and worked briefly in the oil and gas industry before joining Fluor Canada, the Canadian division of a major international Engineering and Construction company.  In his role as Human Resources Director, over the next 40 years, he led a staff of up to 25 people involved in […]

Posted date : Dec 13, 2024

My spouse is retired and was a lineman for a New Brunswick company for hurricanes or tropical storms. He went to work in the United States for Hurricane Helene and is currently in Florida for Hurricane Milton.