Visa refusal in Nigeria

[Timothy22]

I recently applied for a temporary visitors visa after 15 years that i was served with a certificate of departure. Please ca
Thank you for your interest in visiting Canada. After careful review of your temporary resident visa application and supporting documentation, I have determined that your application does not meet the requirements of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) and Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR). I am refusing your application on the following grounds:


I am not satisfied that you will leave Canada at the end of your stay as a temporary resident, as stipulated in paragraph 179(b) of the IRPR, based on your history of having contravened the conditions of admission on a previous stay in Canada.

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You are welcome to reapply if you feel that you can respond to these concerns and can demonstrate that your situation meets the requirements. All new applications must be accompanied by a new processing fee.


Sincerely,

IRCC Nairobi

High Commission of Canada to Kenya

www.cic.gc.ca

 

[21Goose]

Since you were already asked to leave once before, your application has to be extremely strong to overcome the officer's assumption. Clearly you were unable to do so.

What's your profile? What was your purpose of visit, financials, travel history, ties to home country etc?

 

[Timothy22]

Since you were already asked to leave once before, your application has to be extremely strong to overcome the officer's assumption. Clearly you were unable to do so.

What's your profile? What was your purpose of visit, financials, travel history, ties to home country etc?

My purpose of visit is to visit my family with my aged mother of 76 years old to meet her grandchildren for the 1st time. Advice me if i needed to apply for rehabilitation 1st before applying again. My travel, financial and the rest are sound. The only reason for refusal is that i won't leave canada after my visa expires.

 

[21Goose]

My purpose of visit is to visit my family with my aged mother of 76 years old to meet her grandchildren for the 1st time. Advice me if i needed to apply for rehabilitation 1st before applying again. My travel, financial and the rest are sound. The only reason for refusal is that i won't leave canada after my visa expires.

You don't need rehabilitation unless you were found criminally inadmissible to Canada.

Why were you asked to leave 15 years ago? Did you just over stay your visa, or was it something else?

Also, what's your family situation. Are you saying that your mother and you want to travel to Canada to meet your brother/sister and your nephews/nieces?

Did your mother get her visa?

Are you married or single? How can you prove that you will leave Canada.

My travel, financial and the rest are sound.

If they had been sound, the officer would have felt that this time you will leave Canada after visiting. He didn't think so. Can you provide more details? Have you traveled to the US/EU/Aus/UK frequently?

 

[Eveslm]

If you were issued a certificate of departure and did not leave Canada within the 30 days you were required to, or did not verify your departure with a Canadian immigration officer at the port of exit, then you were supposed to apply for Authorization to Return to Canada (ARC) before you applied for the TRV.

Also note that an ARC is not easy to get and it takes a long time. They will definitely be looking at the possibility that you might attempt to overstay again, repeat the same mistakes, and the reason you now want to re-enter (purpose...how strong is it?) for them to issue you a ARC.

And having an approved ARC does not guarantee getting a TRV

 

[Timothy22]

You don't need rehabilitation unless you were found criminally inadmissible to Canada.

Why were you asked to leave 15 years ago? Did you just over stay your visa, or was it something else?

Also, what's your family situation. Are you saying that your mother and you want to travel to Canada to meet your brother/sister and your nephews/nieces?

Did your mother get her visa?

Are you married or single? How can you prove that you will leave Canada.

My travel, financial and the rest are sound.

If they had been sound, the officer would have felt that this time you will leave Canada after visiting. He didn't think so. Can you provide more details? Have you traveled to the US/EU/Aus/UK frequently?

Yes i had a criminal conviction for fraud under. I reported myself to the authority and i left Canada within a month. I couldn't report to any Canadian embassy in 2005 because Canada had closed their embassy with Nigeria because of sanctions. I am legally married with proof
I've traveled to Asia and south America. I wanted to take my aged mother to meet her grandchildren for just 3 weeks. Please how or what can i do to proof that i will not over stay? Summits myself and my mother's passport to the nearest police station to my address? After all before i left Canada i was signing on at the police station for 3 months of which i never skip a day.

 

[Timothy22]

I have 2 daughters born in Canada and a step daughter. Age 23. 20. 15.

 

[Timothy22]

If you were issued a certificate of departure and did not leave Canada within the 30 days you were required to, or did not verify your departure with a Canadian immigration officer at the port of exit, then you were supposed to apply for Authorization to Return to Canada (ARC) before you applied for the TRV.

Also note that an ARC is not easy to get and it takes a long time. They will definitely be looking at the possibility that you might attempt to overstay again, repeat the same mistakes, and the reason you now want to re-enter (purpose...how strong is it?) for them to issue you a ARC.

And having an approved ARC does not guarantee getting a TRV

I left Canada within the said time. I reported to the Canada consulate in Ghana in 2005. Nigeria was under sanction at the time. I'm legally married. I have 2 daughters and a step daughter. All Canadians. I had a criminal conviction which is under $5000. All conditions served. Do i need to apply for rehabilitation?

 

[Eveslm]

I left Canada within the said time. I reported to the Canada consulate in Ghana in 2005. Nigeria was under sanction at the time. I'm legally married. I have 2 daughters and a step daughter. All Canadians. I had a criminal conviction which is under $5000. All conditions served. Do i need to apply for rehabilitation?

Might need to apply for a record suspension. And might also need to apply for an ARC.

Is your wife in Canada as well?

 

[Eveslm]

I have 2 daughters born in Canada and a step daughter. Age 23. 20. 15.

Old enough to travel to Nigeria by themselves to visit their grandmother. You might also want to look at that

 

[Timothy22]

Might need to apply for a record suspension. And might also need to apply for an ARC.

Is your wife in Canada as well?

Yes my wife is a Jamaican Canadian. She works as a care giver. Isn't the record of suspension now change to pardon? Or vice versa. Please how do i go about applying? Thank you.

 

[Timothy22]

Their mother is scared to let them come to Africa alone.

Old enough to travel to Nigeria by themselves to visit their grandmother. You might also want to look at that

 

[k.h.p.]

Unfortunately it's going to be very very challenging for you to ever get a visa to Canada given your criminal and visa violation history.

 

[21Goose]

Record Suspension - https://www.canada.ca/en/parole-board/services/record-suspensions/applying-for-a-record-suspension.html

Rehabilitation - https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/application-forms-guides/guide-5312-rehabilitation-persons-inadmissible-canada-past-criminal-activity.html

However, your visa wasn't denied for criminal inadmissibility. It was denied because of your "past violations of condition of entry". That makes it sound like you came in on a visitor visa, and then you worked illegally as well.

If you're serious about this, you should talk to an immigration consultant/lawyer and give them all the facts. Your case isn't simple and it's difficult to give you good advice without knowing all the facts.

 

[Eveslm]

Yes my wife is a Jamaican Canadian. She works as a care giver. Isn't the record of suspension now change to pardon? Or vice versa. Please how do i go about applying? Thank you.

It appears that all of your family is in Canada. Adding that to your criminal history and violation of your previous visa conditions, and you purpose (taking your mother to Canada to visit her grand children, who can travel to visit her) not very convincing to the officer that you will leave Canada and will not violate conditions of your visa again.

How come your wife never sponsored you as a spouse even after you left Canada?