NYC - Canada - NE Cruise Immigration Procedure

[CruisingFox27]

We will be sailing from NYC to Canada, returning to New England and disembarking in NYC.

 

I understand we do not require a visa for Canada, UK citizens arriving by cruise but do we complete any immigration procedures when we arrive in our first Canadian port?

 

Will we complete US immigration, we'll be traveling using an ESTA, when we dock in our first New England port, it will be Portland? Do we then complete US immigration again when we disembark in NYC?

 

The ship will then continue to the Caribbean, if we were remaining on the sailing would we be required to disembark in NYC to complete US immigration?

 

We have sailed to the US and US Caribbean island previously but I'm not sure we've ever completed the same process twice, so would like to have an idea of the immigration we'll under go on this sailing. TIA

[1025cruise]

Any ship porting in the US is required to "zero out" before allowing new passengers on. Since your first US port will be Portland after visiting Canada, you will go through immigration there. 

[martincath]

And for your other question, yes you will also go through Canadian immigration at the Port of Entry. For cruises that's usually a fast and simple process - hand in the completed declaration cards on-board before arrival at the port, cruise staff deal with getting the info to CBSA, so an announcement that passengers in staterooms X, Y, Z need to speak to CBSA and should report to a specific location on the ship while everyone else just gets off is the normal process.