Hey Fernando,
It's pretty weird how you never know what people are going through until they share. Nice to know more about you.
If you don't mind me asking. Did you eventually get a work permit? How were you able to stay in Canada for a year?
Hi tobs,
I had to apply in August to extend my stay as visitor and was issued a Visitor Record allowing me to stay for 6 more months, which will expire this next February 13th.
As a last attempt, we applied for a work permit on December 20th. By then, as per IRCC website, the processing time for this kind of permit was 6 weeks. Two weeks ago they updated it to 7 weeks. Yesterday, precisely, my application completed 6 weeks without a single movement or anything on it, and tbh, I’m not confident they’ll do anything soon either.
On my last call to IRCC, when I reached the 6 month-mark in my EE app, I asked the agent about what my situation would be in a worst case scenario of having my WP refused after Feb 13, when I’d be, in theory, without status here. She said if I don’t hear back from them until feb 13, I’d be on implied status and if a refusal happened, I’d get a letter with the reasons of that refusal and a statement saying I must leave the country “as soon as possible”. Not satisfied with this “asap”, I asked how long that would be, she said I should interpret that as a reasonable time to finish everything I have ongoing here and leave.
Do you see the reason why I’m mad at them? They cannot even abide by their own rules? It’s ridiculous....anyways..