Having a relative in Canada can jeopardize application

[poco]

Is this true?

I have read somewhere that if you have a close relative in Canada willing to support you can jeopardize your chances of getting a  student visa for the reason that the Immigration Officer may doubt that you will no longer go back to your home country because you have close relative in Canada.

any idea? please... thanks!

[Leon]

Yes, absolutely it might mess up your application.  They might think you are coming to join your relative so you would have to show even stronger ties to your homeland.

[Regina]

Yes, absolutely it might mess up your application.  They might think you are coming to join your relative so you would have to show even stronger ties to your homeland.

Interesting question!

How do all that work with possibility for graduates to find a job in Canada and get a work permit for two years, and during that time (of working) apply for permanent immigrant status from within Canada?

When you apply for a student visa- "you must prove that you would return back home", and at the same time according to immigration rules you HAVE  RIGHTS to stay in Canada to work after graduation?!?! And then apply for PR status... Does CIC understand this itsself?

Do they really think this possibility exists only for those graduates who "absolutely suddenly changed their minds during convocation"? :) What is the worth  of the promises "to go back home" if after graduation you a have a LEGAL opportunity to stay in Canada?

[Leon]

Immigration works in mysterious ways.  It's like when they refuse a person a visitor visa to visit a fiancee because they don't believe they will go back.  When they get married and apply for sponsorship, they can go and refuse the same person a PR because they don't believe the marriage is real.

I think what tops it though is when a PR couple has a baby outside of Canada.  This happened to some people who came to this board.  Since a PR can not sponsor a baby for PR from outside of Canada, they couldn't do it that way.  So they tried to get a visitor visa for the baby to come with them to Canada so they could sponsor it from there.  They were refused since immigration knows that the baby is going to stay permanently and therefore can't give it a visitor visa.  In the end, they had to split up, husband go to Canada to apply to sponsor the baby and wife stay with the baby overseas.  Crazy, isn't it?

[Regina]

Leon, I like your example about PR parents and their baby. I also think those two cases- about the baby and the student visa- are the top of CIC idiocy. :D

[poco]

if an international student is admitted in Canada for at least one year, isn't the he illegible to apply for Permanent Resident inside Canada?

Assuming he is also qualified as skilled worker and able to achieve the required points of 67.

[Leon]

Yes, he could still apply as a skilled worker from inside of Canada.