Your friend can apply for visitor visa extension before the visa expires. It would be definitely better to call IRCC if you are not sure but they might give you several options for the extension.
I applied the restoration of visitor visa and PGWP with restoration student visa which are 605CAD in total.
So, I've call several IRCC officers to make sure whether I can ignore the voluntary departure order if I apply to visa restoration.
What they say was I can ignore the departure order for...
thanks for reply,
Actually I haven't applied PGWP yet since I was planned to apply after I prepare all necessary documents such as graduate certificate and student visa extension.
The timeline here is
4/23 - applied student visa extension
7/25- my student visa extension has expired
9/8 - I...
Hi, I’ve applied for an extension on student visa on April 23rd as the expiry date of my current student visa was set on July 25th. Today I’ve received an update from IRCC asking me to leave the country (I got Voluntary Departure Confirmation) as I’ve already graduated on September 8th and am no...
I just called to IRCC and what an operator said was that they are still unsure about processing time due to COVID-19.
Still plenty of other applications are in processing, so the person whose application has extended recently might be simply lucky.
I've been waiting almost 5 months for visa extension even though I've already graduated on Aug 31st...
I can't even get a part time job since my visa extension has not been granted yet, right??