Situation: I'm currently on WHP and my employeer wants me to continue working, so I applied (in timely matter) under Young Professionals program to be able to continue working. I contacted the respective IEC department and asked whether I'm allowed to apply for the second program while I'm still in Canada working under the first program (i.e. WHP) and I was told that I can apply at any time.
Stage 1: the IEC part, went through without any issues and I received the Conditial Acceptance Letter.
Stage 2: I filled out and submitted all the required documentation through My CIC along with the Conditional Acceptance Letter I received from IEC, and after 2 months this is their reply:
"This letter refers to your application for a Work Permit.
Your application as requested is refused.
You are not a person described in Immigration Legislation who can apply for this type of
document from within Canada. An application of this type must be made at a Canadian Visa
office in another country."
I suspect this happened because I chose "Canada" as country of current residency (i.e. one of the first questions in the 'come to Canada' wizard when creating the My CIC account). Anyone knows if you are supposed to pick the country of your citizenship there even though you are still in Canada? After talking to IEC representative my assumption was that this wasn't the case.
I sent out a couple of emails and tried calling CIC (since IEC is unable to answer questions about CIC applications), but nobody seems to be able to assist me. Not sure what to do.
Thanks!
Stage 1: the IEC part, went through without any issues and I received the Conditial Acceptance Letter.
Stage 2: I filled out and submitted all the required documentation through My CIC along with the Conditional Acceptance Letter I received from IEC, and after 2 months this is their reply:
"This letter refers to your application for a Work Permit.
Your application as requested is refused.
You are not a person described in Immigration Legislation who can apply for this type of
document from within Canada. An application of this type must be made at a Canadian Visa
office in another country."
I suspect this happened because I chose "Canada" as country of current residency (i.e. one of the first questions in the 'come to Canada' wizard when creating the My CIC account). Anyone knows if you are supposed to pick the country of your citizenship there even though you are still in Canada? After talking to IEC representative my assumption was that this wasn't the case.
I sent out a couple of emails and tried calling CIC (since IEC is unable to answer questions about CIC applications), but nobody seems to be able to assist me. Not sure what to do.
Thanks!