Hi everyone. I am an American with a Canadian husband who is sponsoring me in Quebec.
I have been in Quebec for about 6 months but only sent out my application in July because I was waiting for my police certificate.
I've been following this forum for a few months now and finally decided to post something. It's nice to know that I am not the only one going through this long and stressful process.
Here is what little information I have so far:
Application Sent: July 11, 2012
Application Received: July 17, 2012
I had applied for an open work permit in September and received a letter of denial in October.
I am still learning about this whole process and am a bit confused on what to do still. I was hoping someone could shed some light on my situation. I apologize if my post is a bit long but I just want to explain my whole situation. Can anyone help answer the following question(s)? :
1. Since I applied inland, CIC advises that I don't leave Canada until the PR application is done. Since my application is not being processed yet, does that mean I should go back to the states until my application is on ECAS? What I've been doing is leaving and coming back to Canada to renew my status every 3 months (or however much time the immigration officer allows me to stay). Every time I leave Canada I'm scared that I will be refused entry and my application will be abandoned but every officer I've spoken to has told be even though I've applied for PR, I have no status. This completely contradicts CIC telling me I cannot leave. I'm very confused on what to do.
I just got back from the borders this morning and got a 3 month extension to stay in Quebec. The officer I spoke with told me to apply for a french course so I could apply for a CAQ so I could stay in Canada for a longer period of time.
I'm sorry if this is a silly question or if I am being unclear. My mind is going in a million directions at once.
I guess to keep it short and simple:
What do you do after you send out your application? Do you wait in Canada even if it takes more than 6 months (the amount of time I'm allowed to stay as a tourist)?
I guess in retrospect I should have just applied outland, but it's too late for that now...Anyways if you've made it all the way down to here, thank you for reading my entire post and any advice or help would be appreciated!!
Have a nice day
Hi, just for my own experience there is no problem travelling in and out Canada during applying for PR.
I had travelled twice to USA and twice for Brazil, once longer than a month.
On my way back I just had with me some of the application papers, my postal receipt and confirmation of receival, my AOR and ofiicers where really nice and gave my one year visitor visa.