Hello,
My husband (from Brazil) and I (Canadian Citizen) got married in Vancouver on January 16th and sent in the application for family class sponsorship inland on February 25th. My husband was currently on a 1 month study visa (which expired in October) and a 6 month visitor stamp (which expired this month.)
Around the end of November 2009, my husband filed an extension for his visa and for a work permit late because of a problem with the financial institution in Brazil, he was unable to obtain his financial records until the day he applied for the extension. He didn't realize at the time that he could submit the extension on time then send the information at a later date.
Anyway, he received a letter today regarding his extension, dated March 18th, stating that the extension was denied because he was late and that he was also determined to not be a genuine student as the letter he obtained from his school lacked credibility, therefore diminished the overall credibility of his whole submission.
We haven't heard anything from Immigration regarding the sponsorship we sent in February, and we are really worried right now, because the letter he received regarding his extension he filed prior to getting married stated that he must leave Canada immediately.
My question is - what should we do now? We did see an immigration lawyer prior to submitting the sponsorship application and he told us that once that is in, he is allowed to remain in Canada without status. Although, we didn't expect to get a letter saying he has to leave therefore we're really concerned that if he's been asked to leave, he'll have to leave regardless. We are planning to call Immigration as soon as we can (we received the letter outside of the calling hours today) and notify them of the sponsorship application and to ask what's our next step but any information I could get here would be extremely beneficial. Thank you.
My husband (from Brazil) and I (Canadian Citizen) got married in Vancouver on January 16th and sent in the application for family class sponsorship inland on February 25th. My husband was currently on a 1 month study visa (which expired in October) and a 6 month visitor stamp (which expired this month.)
Around the end of November 2009, my husband filed an extension for his visa and for a work permit late because of a problem with the financial institution in Brazil, he was unable to obtain his financial records until the day he applied for the extension. He didn't realize at the time that he could submit the extension on time then send the information at a later date.
Anyway, he received a letter today regarding his extension, dated March 18th, stating that the extension was denied because he was late and that he was also determined to not be a genuine student as the letter he obtained from his school lacked credibility, therefore diminished the overall credibility of his whole submission.
We haven't heard anything from Immigration regarding the sponsorship we sent in February, and we are really worried right now, because the letter he received regarding his extension he filed prior to getting married stated that he must leave Canada immediately.
My question is - what should we do now? We did see an immigration lawyer prior to submitting the sponsorship application and he told us that once that is in, he is allowed to remain in Canada without status. Although, we didn't expect to get a letter saying he has to leave therefore we're really concerned that if he's been asked to leave, he'll have to leave regardless. We are planning to call Immigration as soon as we can (we received the letter outside of the calling hours today) and notify them of the sponsorship application and to ask what's our next step but any information I could get here would be extremely beneficial. Thank you.
