What Iam Allowed to do while waiting, any suggestions

[SSSK]

I have PR inland under the family class for one year ago,and I have to wait more than one year, my status now is visitor in canada, as my visa instructions Iam not allowed to work or study or..

my quastions are for example if i wanna apply for drivining licence can I do that or Iam not allowed?

and what any thing else can do while waiting period?

thanks

 

[RobsLuv]

You can definitely apply for a drivers' licence, and you can do volunteer work - as long as your volunteering doesn't take a paying position away from a Canadian citizen/PR.

Being prohibited from work or study means just that - your current visa does not authorize you to attend school, or work in Canada. You would need to apply for a separate permit. With an inland PR ap in process, though, you will be offered the option to apply for either a work or a study permit as soon as your processing gets to first stage approval. Normally you'd have received AIP (or first stage approval) about 6 months after your application went to Vegreville, but you're saying it's been a year? Did you application get transferred, maybe, to a local CIC office for processing? That sometimes happens before AIP and delays your ability to get a work permit.

 

[SSSK]

Thanks for your good reply, about my app it has been transfered to local cic since oct.2008, and they told me that they need more one year to finilize the first stage approval.

Really sometimes i dont understand any thing, they say on the web site that the first stage is meaning ( sponsorship Avaulation) and the second step is ( Adimmisbility checks) for the applicant, but when i check oline about our profiles, they said we start processing your application on May.2008 for PR, and they say about the sponsorship application we transfered your application to local cic and we started proccesing the sponsorship application on Oct.2008.

Does this mean that they finish processing my application for PR, and now they started processing my wife application for the sponsorship, Does that mean when they will call us for an interview it is means the final process for the PR.

your kind help apperciated.

Thanks

 

[RobsLuv]

It's really hard to know with inland applications - especially when they're transferred to the local office. Inland processing is not nearly as "transparent" as outland processing. Do you know what complication caused your file to be transferred before AIP?

 

[SSSK]

Thank you

But really i dont know why my file has been transfered, my status is okay, all the applications okay, our relation is good, Immigration they told me they transferd it because they need more clarrfication and more informtion, a lawyer he told me may the immigration not sure about the relation is genuine.

 

[siki]

sssk wht is ur local office