Question regarding work permit extension for citizenship application

[tremonade]

Hello all,

I've started my citizenship application, but I've hit a roadblock in the physical presence section.

In this question: During your 5-year eligibility period, did you have a valid temporary resident status before becoming a permanent resident?
I answered "Yes". It asked me another question: Did you apply to extend your status?

Here's the confusion.
I applied for an extension in August 2022 under the public policy for PGWP extension, and I applied for my PR in Oct 2022. I received my PR in Feb 2023, and I received a message from IRCC saying that my work permit extension application has been withdrawn because I'm already a PR.

Now in the Citizenship application, it asks "Did I apply for extension of the status", I said "Yes". And then it goes, "Was the extension approved". When I give "Yes", it's asking "Expiry date of extended status", which I cannot provide because it wasn't approved or rejected, it was withdrawn by IRCC since I got my PR. If I give "No" here, it says, "Date of decision for the refused extension" which again I cannot provide as it was withdrawn.

Now, is withdrawn similar to the application being rejected? How should I proceed?

 

[abff08f4813c]

I'm quite surprised that there's not much online regarding this specific situation, as it seems it ought to be a fairly common one.

Anyways, this happened earlier to quite a few posters, see https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/question-on-work-permit-extension-during-citizenship-application.829565/post-10845594

From that thread, it seems that there are two options here: use the online app and say that the extension was approved on the date you got the withdrawal message, and then add a document explaining that IRCC withdrew it because PR got approved before they could make a decision. Or use the paper app instead.

 

[rr011725]

Hello all,

I've started my citizenship application, but I've hit a roadblock in the physical presence section.

In this question: During your 5-year eligibility period, did you have a valid temporary resident status before becoming a permanent resident?
I answered "Yes". It asked me another question: Did you apply to extend your status?

Here's the confusion.
I applied for an extension in August 2022 under the public policy for PGWP extension, and I applied for my PR in Oct 2022. I received my PR in Feb 2023, and I received a message from IRCC saying that my work permit extension application has been withdrawn because I'm already a PR.

Now in the Citizenship application, it asks "Did I apply for extension of the status", I said "Yes". And then it goes, "Was the extension approved". When I give "Yes", it's asking "Expiry date of extended status", which I cannot provide because it wasn't approved or rejected, it was withdrawn by IRCC since I got my PR. If I give "No" here, it says, "Date of decision for the refused extension" which again I cannot provide as it was withdrawn.

Now, is withdrawn similar to the application being rejected? How should I proceed?

Where you able to figure out what to do?

 

[tremonade]

Where you able to figure out what to do?

Not yet :/

 

[abff08f4813c]

Not yet :/

Hmm... Was there something wrong with the advice that I gave earlier?