Hello everyone, I have scoured the threads for similar stories to get an idea, but every story seems to have a bit of a different twist than ours so its hard to tell.
I'm hoping someone can help.
Here is our story,
My husband came here to Canada from Jamaica on a work permit. We met while he was here and yes, he overstayed. He is now past the point to really do anything about his status. In July 2017 we got married. On March 1 2018 CBSA came to my door. They found him by him doing his fingerprints for police certificates. How ironic.
Anyways, he wasnt home so they asked me to have him turn himself in the next morning.He told us to bring our sponsorship app (it was days away from being sent in as we were only waiting on the police certificate from jamaica) and his passport and marriage certificate. When we went there he was issued a paper that was dated almost a year ago that said he was deemed inadmissible due to overstay (first we heard of it). Then he was also given an exclusion order.
Now, this is where Im confused. The agent told us he was able to stay and he would be placed under conditions
1..report once a month
2 report any change of address immeditely
3 keep the peace and be of good behaviour
He also stated that he had to do a risk assessment before they could send him home. He said that process starts once he sends the paperwork to toronto. He said he was not going to do that until after his first sign in meeting which he actually set for April 5. He said he was doing that for us, to buy us some time to get our application in. He also told me that the fact we have a paper saying he was not admissible, that wont affect the application. He mentioned that this risk assessment was automatic and if he was approved we would be fine and he could stay. If not, he would have to leave unless something happened with his app by that time. He even mentioned the deferral of 60 days.
That all seemed fine to me but after reading threads and forums, im seeing that people are saying a risk assessement is something You have to apply for urself ( but he told us toronto will call us and we have to go)
Also im reading that people are saying that interview we went to was probably the pre risk assesemnt meeting...he didnt say that and didnt give us anything about pre risk or risk assessement. only the exclusion order. people are saying that the 60 day deferral does not apply to anyone who did not have app in before being given the pre risk assessment order. and that is what those call in meetings are. Is that what it was for us or is it this thing he said we will be called into toronto for once he sends off the paper work?
When he explained everything, it seemed so simple but now im scared he was leaving stuff out, the way to go about things and things we may need to be doing throughout this process.
Does anyone know about this? This agent made it seem so simple and easy and that as long as we get the app in everything will be ok. He even said 90 percent of the time things work out.
But I dont know, i cant see it really being that easy and cant help myself not to trust what a CBSA officer says when it is his job to remove people in the first place
Any opinions or advice.
I'm hoping someone can help.
Here is our story,
My husband came here to Canada from Jamaica on a work permit. We met while he was here and yes, he overstayed. He is now past the point to really do anything about his status. In July 2017 we got married. On March 1 2018 CBSA came to my door. They found him by him doing his fingerprints for police certificates. How ironic.
Anyways, he wasnt home so they asked me to have him turn himself in the next morning.He told us to bring our sponsorship app (it was days away from being sent in as we were only waiting on the police certificate from jamaica) and his passport and marriage certificate. When we went there he was issued a paper that was dated almost a year ago that said he was deemed inadmissible due to overstay (first we heard of it). Then he was also given an exclusion order.
Now, this is where Im confused. The agent told us he was able to stay and he would be placed under conditions
1..report once a month
2 report any change of address immeditely
3 keep the peace and be of good behaviour
He also stated that he had to do a risk assessment before they could send him home. He said that process starts once he sends the paperwork to toronto. He said he was not going to do that until after his first sign in meeting which he actually set for April 5. He said he was doing that for us, to buy us some time to get our application in. He also told me that the fact we have a paper saying he was not admissible, that wont affect the application. He mentioned that this risk assessment was automatic and if he was approved we would be fine and he could stay. If not, he would have to leave unless something happened with his app by that time. He even mentioned the deferral of 60 days.
That all seemed fine to me but after reading threads and forums, im seeing that people are saying a risk assessement is something You have to apply for urself ( but he told us toronto will call us and we have to go)
Also im reading that people are saying that interview we went to was probably the pre risk assesemnt meeting...he didnt say that and didnt give us anything about pre risk or risk assessement. only the exclusion order. people are saying that the 60 day deferral does not apply to anyone who did not have app in before being given the pre risk assessment order. and that is what those call in meetings are. Is that what it was for us or is it this thing he said we will be called into toronto for once he sends off the paper work?
When he explained everything, it seemed so simple but now im scared he was leaving stuff out, the way to go about things and things we may need to be doing throughout this process.
Does anyone know about this? This agent made it seem so simple and easy and that as long as we get the app in everything will be ok. He even said 90 percent of the time things work out.
But I dont know, i cant see it really being that easy and cant help myself not to trust what a CBSA officer says when it is his job to remove people in the first place
Any opinions or advice.
