Hi good morning to all! we are a family of 3 who came here on a visitor's visa. We came here because of difficulties in our country which work is very hard to find. we are living without any status here now for almost 2 years. We are on our own without no family support. We have been trying our best to get help and got ripped off lots of time from immigration fraud companies and i have tried to find a company which supports lmia but seems almost impossible to find. so we are now scared of whom to trust. our daughter is being home school because we are scared to go public. I am working for a company that is paying me cash and that is how i afford rent and food. my wife stays home with our daughter to teach her. We don't know where to go for help, we need someone who can lead us in the right direction. Please any advise will be accepted. thank you.
family of 3 needs help
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i forget to mention that the company i work for is not willing to help me so they pay me cash weekly.
Not even remotely surprised. What do you expect from a company hiring you illegally?!
thank you all for replying. though i am not sure what category i would be placed in, so i just made this post in asylum. it's not that i want to work illegal, i am trying my best to do it the right way. i wish there was a way to be paying tax. on the other hand is it good to keep all receipts from grocery shopping and so on?
thanks very much for your help i will surely look into that.
That’s a bit oversimplified and exceptionally optimistic. CBSA can actually make a determination (as can IRCC or the IRB) that the applicant does not fit the refugee definition at the time of the claim. A decision in your claim can be expedited if they feel you rent a valid claimant and you could find yourself breezing through the process in no time and on your way home. The OP has no valid refugee claim and the intent is purely economic. And H&C doesn’t not guarantee you get to remain in Canada. Many H&C claimants are removed during the process.
There is no way that you will be guaranteed PR after you have exhausted all the options that was stated by @andy.keeling.
The most likely scenario would end with deportation of you and your family given that you have no valid reasoning of why IRCC or CBSA let you stay in Canada.
Yes but OP must realize that he has no valid claims of asylum and he can be deported by CBSA at anytime. Having H&C application will not help at all to stop the removal order.
But again its his decision and what he wants to do is up to him.
H&C is your only real option - but it has very low success rates.
Most other paths aren't an option since they require you to have valid status in Canada to apply. For example, none of the following is possible since you are out of status: temporary work permit, study permit, applying to immigrate through an economic immigration stream like Express Entry or PNP.
There's zero point looking for an LMIA. Even if you find a real one, you cannot apply for a work permit since you're out of status.
Hello, you should look for a community law group or centre, assuming that you are in a reasonably large city in Canada. Immigration issues consume a great deal of resources for these people and they are generally familiar with the issues that you are facing and worrying yourself sick about. Who cannot sympathize with a man looking after the interests of his family - plenty of people, it is sad to say.
Do you have a valid claim to Convention refugee status, is work difficult to find in your homeland because of your ethnicity, religion, membership in a social group? I don't know and neither does anyone else at this point. Your family's lack of status and need for some sort of resolution is the predominant issue - your child's health and education needs demand it.
When IRPA was introduced to replace the old immigration act it recognized new considerations and priorities and the Best Interests of the Child (BIOC) was a premier feature with lots of fanfare. It shows up most significantly within humanitarian and compassionate grounds applications - H&Cs can be very complex applications to put together for them to be compelling but statistically the odds look to be over 40 percent approvals.
This is no reason for blind or even a measured optimism because a significant number of the approvals will "likely" be from applicants with lengthy histories in Canada (failed refugee claims, children at risk, and the laying down of roots within your community, letters of support from people like teachers, religious workers, others). This decision-making is guided by policy but there is a very broad level of discretion exercised by these officers.
Generally speaking, "Canada" doesn't want people living underground because the system doesn't know that someone is here, and it leads to children not going to school, wives hiding in their homes or a working parent being ripped off by someone employing people without concern for taxes, workman's compensation and all that.
So, what are your choices here? You can go to the CBSA and resign yourself to returning to your home country or you can make a refugee claim since that's just about the only thing that would Stay, or prevent, a near immediate removal. In practical terms, the options boil down to these stark choices.
Please, get to a walk-in law clinic so that you can share your entire story with someone familiar with the differing immigration processes and offer their advice so that you may then make an informed decision about which way to go.
A failed refugee claim followed by a removal from Canada will just about obliterate international travel for you in the developed world for the rest of your life and that is also a lot to lose. I wonder if life here is really any better for you and yours, but then again - like everyone else here - I don't know beans about you. I do however, hope that you can find some considerate and competent legal advisor from a well established law centre that serves low income families.
That's in your best interest, sir.
Thank you very much for your help. You all have been very helpful. We will try our brst.