Hi I am a 21 year old male looking to go back to Canada. I moved to Canada when i was 13 to a boarding school on a Student Visa. I renewed my study permit every year over and over, sometimes i would do it here in my home country and other times I would do it in Canada. I did this until 2009 when it expired, I might have overstayed my time in Canada by about three months but left to do things right. Once I got back to my home country I could not decide if I really wanted to go back so I stayed and took a whole year off school to work and focus on other things.
I recently applied, with an enrollment letter bank statements etc, to go back and got denied after a month of presenting the forms and papers at the embassy (I applied just before christmas). I have sufficient funds (I think) and I dont know why I got rejected. I do have some theories as to why i got rejected tho and Ill state them in point form:
- I have a brother, with whom i lived for about a year, who has overstayed much past his permit who currently lives in Canada, however i think he recently fixed his status.
- I was once arrested and charged, however the charges were dropped and i was never convicted.
- I did apply to college instead of a University, I could change this no problem.
- My family didn't disclose all the financial information although I did present statements with strong assets easily capable of supporting me in Canada.
I think the first two might be the most probable, although only the first one would amount to the reason given be "I am not satisfied that you are a genuine student" as to mean that there is a high chance of me staying there taking as evidence my brother's situation. However I find this improbable since I could have had that chance but didn't and not long after my permit expired I left. The second option seems to me un-canadian since I was never convicted and it has always been my point of view that if you are not proven guilty you are not guilty, therefore charges without conviction should not matter more still if the charges have been dropped.
I grew up in Canada and most of my life is there, not that it is that hard to start over at a different place but I miss Canada very much and want that second chance to grad from University badly. The nostalgia I feel to what i see as my home becomes deeper the further away Canada gets.
I recently applied, with an enrollment letter bank statements etc, to go back and got denied after a month of presenting the forms and papers at the embassy (I applied just before christmas). I have sufficient funds (I think) and I dont know why I got rejected. I do have some theories as to why i got rejected tho and Ill state them in point form:
- I have a brother, with whom i lived for about a year, who has overstayed much past his permit who currently lives in Canada, however i think he recently fixed his status.
- I was once arrested and charged, however the charges were dropped and i was never convicted.
- I did apply to college instead of a University, I could change this no problem.
- My family didn't disclose all the financial information although I did present statements with strong assets easily capable of supporting me in Canada.
I think the first two might be the most probable, although only the first one would amount to the reason given be "I am not satisfied that you are a genuine student" as to mean that there is a high chance of me staying there taking as evidence my brother's situation. However I find this improbable since I could have had that chance but didn't and not long after my permit expired I left. The second option seems to me un-canadian since I was never convicted and it has always been my point of view that if you are not proven guilty you are not guilty, therefore charges without conviction should not matter more still if the charges have been dropped.
I grew up in Canada and most of my life is there, not that it is that hard to start over at a different place but I miss Canada very much and want that second chance to grad from University badly. The nostalgia I feel to what i see as my home becomes deeper the further away Canada gets.
