Applying for Individial Rehabiliation after applying for PR.

[Joshkim993]

Hello All,

I applied for my parents PR under the PGP.
After consulting with a lawyer(or a person who should have known better), I was originally told that my father would be “deemed rehabilitated” and even sent off the letter from the lawyer to CIC to explain the charges along with the PR application back in 2018.

Long story short, one of my parent’s assault causing bodily injury on another was a maximum sentence of ten years so it was not deemed rehabilitated.

Now two days ago I get a letter from the processing centre that he was not eligible for deemed rehabilitation and that I had 30 days to provide any other info before coming to a decision(rejection).

[I know f*** this lawyer, even had to argue with this guy to tell him he’s wrong as much as I want him to be right]
+ kept saying: “Not exceeding ten years” and “maximum term of imprisonment of less than ten years” are the same meaning. BS.

So I’m hear asking forum if I can apply for individual rehabilitation and send proof that I applied and would the PR process wait until individual rehabilitation gets processed?

So simply, can I apply for individual rehab after applying for PR. Or does individual rehab need to be only before and with the PR application.

Thanks! And yep even if I can apply for individual rehab I wasted 7 months thinking that my parent was deemed rehab cuz of this “law”yer.

Parents VO is Manila, heard it’s at least 6 months. Can any one shine light on this time frame as well?

Thanks

 

[scylla]

The rehab application is supposed to be submitted either before or at the same time as the PR application.

I would submit the rehab application asap (i.e. before the answer to the fairness letter is due) and then indicate in the fairness letter response that a rehab application as been submitted and request that they pause processing of the PR application until the rehab application is approved. No idea if they will actually do that - good chance they will simply refuse the application. But worth a try IMO. Either way you have to apply for rehab. Might as well do it immediately and try to save the PR application.