Hello,
I am a graduate student in Toronto with an open work permit which allowed me to sponsor my wife for an open work permit too.
She applied for the work permit (outside of Canada) 3 month before the date we were supposed to move to Canada but we could not get her application approved on time so she came with me as a tourist. Few days after we arrived she got an answer from immigration Canada telling her that the application was approved.
Since she went to the Visa office of Toronto, the embassy of her country of origin but no one knows how to change her tourist visa to an open work permit. It seems that the only solution is to cross the border which really does not make sense to me and I am wondering how people do when they apply from Canada? Do they have to cross the border to?
Does someone have a better solution than going to the Niagara,cross the border and come back?
Thanks in advance.
I am a graduate student in Toronto with an open work permit which allowed me to sponsor my wife for an open work permit too.
She applied for the work permit (outside of Canada) 3 month before the date we were supposed to move to Canada but we could not get her application approved on time so she came with me as a tourist. Few days after we arrived she got an answer from immigration Canada telling her that the application was approved.
Since she went to the Visa office of Toronto, the embassy of her country of origin but no one knows how to change her tourist visa to an open work permit. It seems that the only solution is to cross the border which really does not make sense to me and I am wondering how people do when they apply from Canada? Do they have to cross the border to?
Does someone have a better solution than going to the Niagara,cross the border and come back?
Thanks in advance.