Hey. I was on an IEC visa and it expired. I applied for another work permit, was on implied status until it was refused. I was out of status for almost three months, and applied for restoration just before the deadline, which was approved a few weeks ago. I now have legal status again. I got a phone call from my neighbor saying that immigration turned up looking for me while I was away. According to him, they had deportation papers and a plane ticket. Thing is, he has been known to exaggerate things before in order to shit stir, and I have legal status restored - so why would they have come? The only other communication I got from them was a letter saying my restoration was approved. I'm just really really confused.
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- Thread starter Gdobssor
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2. It is possible that they were looking for you if you worked after your IEC expired.
1, Unlikely that they would have a plane ticket and deportation order.
2. It is possible that they were looking for you if you worked after your IEC expired.
As said above, if you worked illegally, they may have come about that.
Also, when they do an enforcement action, they can't go around announcing to the neighbors "Hey! This guy is being deported, here is his plane ticket!" Big violation of privacy. If they talked to anyone, they would have just said that they needed to speak to you.
They may have received information after you were approved for Restoration. They generally don't call because if they tell a person over the phone that they will be removing them from Canada, that person is liable to run.
At this point, you don't even know for sure that they were there, let alone why.
Neighbor definitely used the words, airline ticket and deportation papers. Another person said that any officers that he did speak to wouldn't have shown him anything because it's an invasion of privacy. As I said before, I am skeptical of his account of things as he has lied to me before and exaggerated things in order to cause trouble. But, I just think something like this has to be taken seriously. You said it was unlikely they'd do it that way - may I ask what they normally do when they have to see someone?