Renewing work permit at border for outland applicants

[philharmonic]

Hello,

Just wondering if anyone had any recent experience with renewing their WP at the border recently?

We just applied for family class outland sponsorship for my wife, but her NAFTA WP expires in May. We will be traveling to the US mid April and want to renew the WP at Pearson. If we present our AOR1, they shouldn't really have any issues renewing, right?

Thank you.

 

[scylla]

Hello,

Just wondering if anyone had any recent experience with renewing their WP at the border recently?

We just applied for family class outland sponsorship for my wife, but her NAFTA WP expires in May. We will be traveling to the US mid April and want to renew the WP at Pearson. If we present our AOR1, they shouldn't really have any issues renewing, right?

Thank you.

Outland AOR doesn't allow you to extend a work permit or give you any rights to a work permit. If you want to extend a NAFTA work permit, you need to follow the normal NAFTA work permit extension process.

 

[philharmonic]

Outland AOR doesn't allow you to extend a work permit or give you any rights to a work permit. If you want to extend a NAFTA work permit, you need to follow the normal NAFTA work permit extension process.

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I'm aware that an AOR doesn't give us special treatment when it comes to renewing a WP. I was just wondering about people's recent experience, if any, with this. I know it's all up to the specific agent we see, but I was wondering if anyone else had actually gone through this recently.

Thanks again.

 

[scylla]

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I'm aware that an AOR doesn't give us special treatment when it comes to renewing a WP. I was just wondering about people's recent experience, if any, with this. I know it's all up to the specific agent we see, but I was wondering if anyone else had actually gone through this recently.

Thanks again.

I would ask this question in the Foreign Workers section of the forum. The outland application and the NAFTA work permit have absolutely nothing to do with each other. There's no point showing the AOR since it has no impact on the NAFTA work permit extension. You need to provide the paperwork required to extend a NAFTA work permit (presumably a new letter from the employer, etc.).

 

[philharmonic]

I would ask this question in the Foreign Workers section of the forum. The outland application and the NAFTA work permit have absolutely nothing to do with each other. There's no point showing the AOR since it has no impact on the NAFTA work permit extension. You need to provide the paperwork required to extend a NAFTA work permit (presumably a new letter from the employer, etc.).

scylla, In a strict definition sense, you are correct. However in the highlighted sentence above, you leave no room for discretionary decisions by border agents, which happen all the time. For example, when we last renewed my wife's work permit, the border agent actually told us, that they want to see us start our immigration process by the time the new permit expires, and that we risk having the permit not renewed if the next border agent doesn't see an in-process immigration application.

So, I was just wondering if anyone had any recent experience doing this exact thing. Since we have this travel opportunity, I don't want to be forced to do a mail-in / online application. I don't want to cross-post in the Foreign Workers forum as threads there seem to be only from either students, temporary workers, or live in caregivers. In other words, not Family Class immigrants.