Are you sure? If that's true, then anyone can just travel with an expired passport.
Overstayed in Canada
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directly back to own country , Yes am sure that my country allows it, adding to it the country own airline, and I used it
You see that's the thing, what should I tell the airport on why my passport is expired? Eventually I would have to tell them my situation and therefore they will turn me over to immigration officers. Will possibly be detained too.
Most airlines will not allow you to travel with an expired passport. You should be contacting your home country embassy to obtain an emergency travel document.
Thank you. That's mostly what they're trying to tell me, to get an emergency travel document.
If you turn yourself over to immigration then you put yourself at risk of being detained for an unknown period of time. No one can tell you how long you may be detained. There's no fixed period of time and yes, it's possible you could be detained for months. You should make your own arrangements to leave and pay for your own flight to avoid this situation.
Transfer your money overseas beforehand then. You can't travel without a valid travel document and it's the responsibility of your country to issue you one. Once you reach out to your embassy, they will guide you and it should be a pretty straightforward process. For most countries, you can't renew your passport at a foreign mission without having valid status in that country but they will 100% issue a emergency travel document to return home.
CBSA would rather have you leave voluntarily and not detain/pay for your ticket. As @scylla mentioned, there is no exit control in Canada but CBSA receives record of flight itinerary from airlines so they would know regardless that you are gone.
You have committed immigration and tax fraud, so it's really in your best interest to work with your country's mission, get a travel document and get out of here without getting too much attention from Canadian authorities. Good luck.
Thank you. This is the answer that I'm looking for. Stay away from the authorities' attention as much as possible. Got it.
Thank you. This is the answer that I'm looking for. Stay away from the authorities' attention as much as possible. Got it.
But to be fair to myself, yes on record it is a tax fraud but technically I was paying my tax duty because I was way underpaid by my employer (below minimum wage) and I worked hard for it. It wasn't a free lunch.
Tbh, a few things don't add up really in your story but It's not really the forum to discuss what's fair or unfair. At the end of the day, hopefully you have received the advice you were seeking and now it's your life and you do what you have or want to do.
I would love to answer any questions that you have in mind, but there's no point in disclosing my entire situation now since I already found the answer that I'm looking for. But this is what I can promise you, I'm not a fraud or a criminal. Everything that I worked for were done in good faith. I was a victim of a failed Canadian system that's why I ended up overstaying 'cause I didn't want to go back home a loser (empty handed) so I stacked up.
Yeah it's the wrong term. But I get what forevermore76 is saying. I think the right term is tax evasion,
I meant being paid cash at a lower hourly rate does not make up for not paying taxes.