This is a general answer to all (not just maplewood) who have similar questions.
I have done my homework on the laws/regulations relevant to RO, that's how I know our family will loose our LPR in Canada if we fail to meet those requirements, and I would like to share my knowledge and understanding with all who are concerned about RO requirements:
Canadian LPR's have a RIGHT to be admitted to Canada. Which means, even if someone is in obvious breach of RO officer at border has no vested power to prevent admission of the Canadian Permanent Resident (with some admissibility exceptions, perhaps, but failing to meet RO is not one of them).
However, once reported to authorities, the LPR will have 30 days to appeal the decision to be removed ot will have to go to court and present a case for stay of deportation and retention of LPR. Failing to win such case one will be subject to ultimate removal from canada within a specified period of time.
I will leave it to experts to answer what the status of the person becomes in the interim,in case if one is sponsored for a different type of visa.
I don't know if one would be allowed to stay in Canada and wait for adjudication of another petition, but it's my feeling that once order of deportation went into effect one would have to leave the country and apply for any other status from abroad.
I personally feel sad that so many immigrants try to walk around the bushes instead of accepting Federal Laws for what they are and petitioning an MP and other officials in charge of lawmaking. If you believe the RO puts undue hardship on you let the politicians know, they are the ones in charge of making the law. Doing otherwise gives bad reputation to all immigrants and makes us all subject to be looked at with suspision, as people who are up to no good and try to go around the will of the host country.
This is not the right way to go about it, in my humble opinion.
I suggest we all get together and petition Canadian Ministry of Immigration and Politicians and plea our case honestly and in a straightforward manner.
Canada is a Western Democracy and this is how the process should work. We should plea our case and even though we will loose it (because it takes decade or decades to make changes in laws), but our efforts will serve to cure the hardships of those who will come after us.
There are many of us who would like to move to Canada but are not able to for number of reasons. I do not speak for anyone other than myself, but in our case it's lack of ability to find a professional employment. I believe ecfonomy is not in best shape in canada as of this moment, and by staying out of Canada we actually HELP Canadians looking for jobs, because by staying out we are one less person on welfare rolls and one more vacancy where you have one less compeition to land a job if you are in Canada. How is this detrimental and damaging to the interests or welfare of Canadian people? And, once economy rebounds and need in our skills and ability restored, why not allow us to return as legal residents who passed all the screenings to qualify for residency in Canada?
Again, I do not hope to effect any change or see any changes in any foreseeable future. I am sure at least our family will , regretfully(!) loose our LPR in Canada. But instead of giving bad rep to other immigrants and trying to break the law, I suggest we do what is right: plea our case and hope that some day there will be waivers for those who don't meet H&C grounds set in law today, but have reasonable grounds to not move into Canada within a given deadline. I think many thousands of people who are Canadian LPR's outside of Canada today would move into Canada in a hearbeat had its' economy been in the same shape it was a decade ago.
