Open-work permit extension (spouse of international student)

[carlucho34]

Hi guys.
I need some help as I’ve been getting different comments from friends, lawyers, and the CIC website.

My partner just graduated from a Canadian College. He took a 2-year program and I’m here in Canada with an open work permit. According to the CIC, the immigration counsellor, and our lawyer, once he has asks for his PGWP I have to ask for a Tourist visa. This, in case my partner doesn’t find a full-time job within the NOC lists A,B or 0 before our permits expire, and we know how hard finding a job in Toronto could be. Hence, they have advised me to either study at a college or basically go back home, or my partner would have to take another program.

On the other hand, we’ve met people with the same status and they’ve told us they were able to extend their partners’ work permit without a job. In fact, they state than we you do the application online, the system doesn’t ask for job information. What do you guys know about this?
Lawyers say “no”, yet people that had done it and are here with their permits say “yes”.

Can you guys help me? We were about to enroll in a college for another program, and spend all that money again. And I don’t want to lose my work permit, love my jobs and it was hard to get them.

Thanks,

Carlos

 

[pfse]

Hi guys.
I need some help as I’ve been getting different comments from friends, lawyers, and the CIC website.

My partner just graduated from a Canadian College. He took a 2-year program and I’m here in Canada with an open work permit. According to the CIC, the immigration counsellor, and our lawyer, once he has asks for his PGWP I have to ask for a Tourist visa. This, in case my partner doesn’t find a full-time job within the NOC lists A,B or 0 before our permits expire, and we know how hard finding a job in Toronto could be. Hence, they have advised me to either study at a college or basically go back home, or my partner would have to take another program.

On the other hand, we’ve met people with the same status and they’ve told us they were able to extend their partners’ work permit without a job. In fact, they state than we you do the application online, the system doesn’t ask for job information. What do you guys know about this?
Lawyers say “no”, yet people that had done it and are here with their permits say “yes”.

Can you guys help me? We were about to enroll in a college for another program, and spend all that money again. And I don’t want to lose my work permit, love my jobs and it was hard to get them.

Thanks,

Carlos

Your lawyer is right. As a spouse of WP holder you're eligible for SOWP only if your spouse has a job with NOC 0, A or B. Other people are giving you wrong information. Even if they manage somehow to get SOWP without main applicant having job in NOC 0, A or B it just means that VO made a mistake (or they provide wrong information in the application like stating that they have job that they actually don't have) and not nessesary it would work for you.

 

[carlucho34]

Thanks for your response.