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Valevancity

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Jan 13, 2020
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Hello everyone,
When you list all of your visas in your time spent in Canada calculator and also when you list all of your jobs, can you have gaps?

I explain better, i came in Canada in February 2015 and I got my first visa, which it was the working holiday visa, on July 2015 and it expired on July 2016. After that, since I was waiting to hear back for my LMIA, I applied for a visitor visa that I got on September 2015 then on November I finally got my LMIA.

So when I list all of my visa to calculate my time here is it okay to leave the gap between July 2016 and September 2016?
For my employment record, should I leave a gap or just put unemployed?

Thank you so much in advance
 
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Valevancity

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Jan 13, 2020
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No, I mean I know you can stay in Canada as a tourist for 6 months but technically I don’t have any piece of paper to prove it because I got my visitor visa just on September and when my working holiday visa expired on July I didn’t flagpole so I don’t even have anything on my passport.
 
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Valevancity

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Jan 13, 2020
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And also I don’t know if as soon as a visa expire you are automatically a visitor, or if you are a visitor just from the day you get your visitor visa.
 
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k.h.p.

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Valevancity said:
No, I mean I know you can stay in Canada as a tourist for 6 months but technically I don’t have any piece of paper to prove it because I got my visitor visa just on September and when my working holiday visa expired on July I didn’t flagpole so I don’t even have anything on my passport.
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Then you didn't have status in Canada from when your working holiday visa expired to when you got a new visitor visa.
 
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Valevancity

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I got my PR on November 2017, I do have 3 years if I count the time before I got the PR.
But maybe, since I have this gap of no status, it’s better if i wait November 2020
to apply so I can use my 3 years of PR without showing this gap.
What do you suggest?
 
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k.h.p.

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Are you counting your time as a temporary worker as a full day or a part day? Any days legally in Canada without PR only count for half a day, and there's a limit as to how many you can use to meet the citizenship requirements - 365 days.

To meet the obligation, you'd need 2 years of presence as a PR (which you have, you have two years and two months) PLUS ten months (so nearly two years) of temporary visitor time, not including the time you had no status.
 
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Valevancity

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I’m counting them as half day, I’m using the online physical calculator and I do meet the requirements if I put all of my visas, but I said I do have this gap.

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All of this visas plus my 2 years as PR gives me enough time to apply for citizenship but I’m worry that they are going to reject it because of the gap we are talking about.
If I remove my first working holiday visa, and I calculate my time staring from the visitor visa that I got on September 2016, then I don’t have enough time and I have to wait until June to be eligible. Maybe I should just wait to play safe.
What is your suggestion?
 
k.h.p.

k.h.p.

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I would wait until June.

When you say you were "waiting on your LMIA" from the expiry of your IEC to when you got a visitor visa in September, had you applied for an LMIA supported work permit, or were you waiting for the actual LMIA letter to be provided to your employer?
 
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Valevancity

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I already applied before the expiration of my IEC, I was waiting to hear back from the CIC.
During my working holidays visa I applied twice for LMIA, the first time I was rejected for a mistake then I had to reapply and that’s why I got it “late” when my working visa was already expired.
 
k.h.p.

k.h.p.

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Valevancity said:
I already applied before the expiration of my IEC, I was waiting to hear back from the CIC.
During my working holidays visa I applied twice for LMIA, the first time I was rejected for a mistake then I had to reapply and that’s why I got it “late” when my working visa was already expired.
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Okay, so you were on implied status. That's good, because implied status does count.

BUT - you don't want to apply without a buffer. If you apply with exactly 1095 days of presence, and IRCC debates a few days with you, it'll be rejected for a silly reason. I'd have 2-3 months of buffer before applying.
 
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Valevancity

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Really? That’s great news.
So when I calculate my physical presence what should I write to describe this months of “implied status“?
On the calculator I can choose between:
visitor, international student, temporary workers, temporary resident permit holder, protected person.

Also should I consider the whole time between IEC and LMIA as implied status, or should I consider as implied status just time between the IEC and the visitor visa that I got before the LMIA?

btw thank you so much for your time! You have no idea how helpful you are!
Seriously thank you!
 
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