Applying for PR while on Maintained Status (as a visitor). What do we put for the "status" and "to" date? (IMM 0008)

[canasian1798]

This form is now done online so I will be referring to the question number based on the guide.

Question 10 Current country of residence has a follow up question about current immigration status and a 'from' and 'to' date for that status.

The applicant was previously under IEC 'Working Holiday' visa (open work permit) and are extending their stay as a Visitor. In this visitor extension application, we requested 12 months from the date their open work permit expires.

So my two questions are:

1. Do we put Visitor for their status or Other and explain that they are under 'maintained status as a visitor'? The guide has an example for Out of Status applicants but not Maintained Status applicants.

2. The 'To' date is required to be a future date (assuming when the status expires). In the event that you are in maintained status when you submit the application, what date are you supposed to put here? Do I put the date we requested in the visitor extension application? Or do we just put any future date?

Thank you!

 

[Ponga]

Did they apply for the change of status before the OWP expired?

1. Until IRCC approves and changes their status to Visitor, I suggest going with the latter.

2. Normally the `To' date is the date that you submit the application, not a random day in the future.

 

[canasian1798]

Did they apply for the change of status before the OWP expired?

1. Until IRCC approves and changes their status to Visitor, I suggest going with the latter.

2. Normally the `To' date is the date that you submit the application, not a random day in the future.

Yes, they applied around the 30 days before it expired as recommended. Got the AOR and everything but I assume things will be quiet for a few months as the wait times are around 6 months.

For 2. Are you referring to the date we are going to submit the PR application? It doesn't allow us to put today's date as it requires a future date. The error is "Must be greater than today's date". If we shouldn't put a random date it probably makes sense to just put the requested extension we submitted? We were planning on including a letter of explanation for their maintained status anyway.