Overstaying my Work Holiday Visa

[Line.a]

You are wrong! Overstaying an IEC visa and applying for inland PR could lead you to trouble.
IEC CANT be extended, if your country has the "young professionals visa" which is the 2nd IEC visa then that's the only way. If your country doesn't participate in this 2nd visa, then you live with it. Do not work beyond your IEC or you will risk getting in trouble. That's all I'm saying.

Read this thread for a good explanation..

http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/recent-unread-topics/-t177162.0.html;topicseen

And here!

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?q=181&t=17

 

[Jamesdavid3]

Yet again, we are not EXTENDING our IEC Visa's.

Even in that Thread the agent told him that....

"I spoke with a CIC call center agent earlier, asking them to explain how the above statement applies. They said, "if applying to extend an IEC visa or apply for your second IEC visa (if applicable to your originating country), you will NOT have implied status to continue working while this IEC visa is being approved. However, if you are applying for a new OWP along with PR, you WILL have implied status and can continue to work with your current company until your PR application is approved in principle (approx. 1 year later)."[

In Bold is exactly what we are all doing..

 

[PMM]

Hi

Guys,

I am having a real problem.

I applied for PR under the CEC class. The document checklist asks for reference letters from all the employers and now:

My working holiday work permit expired on November 14, 2012. In September 2012 I applied for an extension based on my provincial nomination letter and I received a closed work permit on December 5, 2012.

Unfortunately, The company did not want to let me work without a work permit and they laid me off. The extension came 3 weeks late.

Between November 14th until December 5th, I thought I was in an implied status and I undertook a low skilled job in my friends company, just for 10 days and I made 1 000 CAD.

In my application for PR under CEC, I attached a letter from this employer where I was 10 days. The employer said in the letter that HE wished he had been able to keep me longer but I was in an implied status and he couldn't keep me for longer.

In some threads I read that these 10 days was totally illegally worked. What do you guys think?

I can add that I called CIC and they said I could work.

You were working without authorization.

 

[Line.a]

when you apply for a bridging open work permit after the first stage of pr application,
you generally apply for a different visa under other conditions. in this situation you can continue working, can't you?

Not with an IEC/working holiday visa since it's a strictly one year visa. As far as I'm concerned! It's been debated heavily over the last while or so whether it could or not.