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hope.2019

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Feb 2, 2019
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Dear all,

I am a Syrian refugee and I got my passport request in order to send it to the embassy so they can stamp the visa on it. They required a plane ticket as well with it.

But I Would like to go to Lebanon for a week in order to see my family one last time for a very long time. Since I cannot apply for a RTD just yet, I will be forced to use my passport to go to Lebanon. So will it be a problem for me If I got my Canadian Visa stamped and then travelled to Lebanon for a week and back to the country I am residing in to continue my trip to Canada?

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Buletruck

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Using your passport is an issue for travel or even applying for one can be problematic. You risk a reavailment finding and the loss of status in Canada if cbsa/IRCC choose to pursue it.
 
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hope.2019

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I traveled to Lebanon last Christmas while waiting for my medical. So i was thinking if my case Right now is the same as my case which was back then in Christmas.
Like, I do not have a PR YET,
and I cannot apply for a RTD YET,
and the passport that I am going to use to reach Canada is going to be my Syrian Passport since I do not have any other choice atm.
 
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Buletruck

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Bad plan. Especially if you have done this before. You’re increasing your chances of being found to have reavailed yourself to your home country. Unfortunately as a refugee claimant, refugee or PR who acquired their PR as a refugee, using your home country passport is one of the means by which you can loose your status in Canada. The more often you use it or even renew your passport, you remove the possibility of defending your position of having done so innocently. There is now intent to reavail. Just don’t travel on your Syrian passport.
 
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joksuela

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How did the CBSA let you travel to Lebanon with a Syrian passport last Christmas?! How on earth didn't it cross their mind that you'd potentially be crossing the border to Syria? :facepalm:
 
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sss12345

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To be honest I don't see any issues with using the Syrian passport. Hope.2019 is not even a PR yet (although he's approved for, but he still haven't landed). I can't see how IRCC can argue this point to be vacation/cessation of refugee status since he doesn't even have refugee status in Canada yet, especially that you travelled before becoming a PR, and you needed to go see your family and did not have any other option but to use your home country's passport since you can't obtain any other travel document in the mean time. I feel that as long as you don't visit your home country (Syria), you should be fine. Yet again this is only my opinion, although it's a good idea to get other people's opinions, I would suggest that you get in touch with a lawyer or with IRCC.
Good Luck!
 
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canuck78

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This person is being sponsored as a private refugee. Unclear what their status is and if they have ever entered Canada.
 
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sss12345

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hope.2019 did mention that they just got their passport request for a visa, therefore I don't believe he's been to Canada before (as a refugee). I don't think any prior visits to Canada as a visitor would be relevant. I would like stress one more time that this only my opinion.
 
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hope.2019

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Feb 2, 2019
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Dear all thank you for your replies.

I am in a third country other than Lebanon or Syria. Not Canada as well definitely.

joksuela said:
How did the CBSA let you travel to Lebanon
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Dear I had nothing to do with CBSA since I wasn't in Canada and I had no other option but to use my passport.

live&love said:
you should NOT
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Do you think that I should never travel until I get in Canada? Keeping in mind I had no Idea when they were going to reply back? With a really solid reason to travel back then.

sss12345 said:
not even a PR yet
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This was the way I was thinking, although all the other members suggested otherwise. Apparenly I was wrong.
 
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canuck78

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hope.2019 said:
Dear all thank you for your replies.

I am in a third country other than Lebanon or Syria. Not Canada as well definitely.


Dear I had nothing to do with CBSA since I wasn't in Canada and I had no other option but to use my passport.


Do you think that I should never travel until I get in Canada? Keeping in mind I had no Idea when they were going to reply back? With a really solid reason to travel back then.


This was the way I was thinking, although all the other members suggested otherwise. Apparenly I was wrong.
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You are fine to travel. Imagine you are in Jordan, Turkey, Egypt or one of the Gulf countries. Some do not accept RTD so best to travel before you come to Canada.
 
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hope.2019

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canuck78 said:
You are fine to travel. Imagine you are in Jordan, Turkey, Egypt or one of the Gulf countries. Some do not accept RTD so best to travel before you come to Canada.
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That sounds so comforting. But with all due respect, are you sure about your information? Or are they based on any law or source? Or just common sense? Because that is exactly my case.
 
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