If you're from a visa-exempt country and give as reason "preparing and submitting a PR application" for the visitor extension, it's pretty unlikely (not impossible!) for the extension to be rejected.
Even for non-visa-exempt people the chances are pretty good if you give that specific reason.
Hell, for my visitor extension (same circumstances) I only asked for 6 months but they actually gave me a year. If you are in the country legally and about to apply for PR they seem to be pretty understanding of that.
Well that's good news! I am from visa required country but I already paid my PR application fees. I can attach it to show them. In this case they should extend it. Maybe I will be able to get the lease back from the landlord by May, haven't lost hope yet... I hope applying in May is fine though because even for May I only have my cat's adoption documents and our joint phone bill that extends to May.
Another good news, we went furniture shopping last year after I came. I can't find any bills or receipts but I called the store they said they would be able to make a copy of it since they have it in the system. I remember back then they took my name, my address... I will try calling some other places too.
And I also found the contract that my boyfriend did with the previous tenants while subletting. He did put my name there and wrote (starting from March 2018) under my name because he had bought my ticket to Canada already when he signed the contract. I don't have my signature of course, but I think it may be good too. I will give this no matter when I apply. I can't get a letter from previous tenants because they moved back to France...
I still don't understand why all the leases start on July 1st here in Montreal... I remember last year while preparing the lease I begged the landlord to put March for starting date she kept saying non.
