Hello, 'm from the US and I have been visiting my common law partner in Canada. I applied to extend my stay as a visitor on February 21st. 2020 and today I got a refusal letter. The reason I got refused was for the following:
[X] Immigration legislation requires that foreign nationals wishing to remain longer in Canada submit an application for extension of their temporary resident status on or before the expiry of the authorized period. Your temporary resident status in Canada expired on October 17, 2019 and your application was made on February 21, 2020.
[X] You are a person in Canada without temporary resident status who is not eligible for restoration under Section 182 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations.
[X] You are a person in Canada without legal status and as such are required to leave Canada immediately. If you do not leave Canada voluntarily, enforcement action may be taken against you.
The letter states that I have been out of status since October 17, 2019 but this isn't true. I applied to extend my visitor visa on October 9th, 2019 and had my application approved on January 29, 2020. I had until March 1st to apply for another extension which means I still had my status until a decision was made on my next extension. I applied for another extension on February 21st, 2020 and got a refusal letter today stating that they could not extend my stay because I was out of status since October... I have the papers too prove that this simply wasn't the case.
Is there anything I could do to appeal this? Am I eligible to apply to restore my status? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you so much in advance!
[X] Immigration legislation requires that foreign nationals wishing to remain longer in Canada submit an application for extension of their temporary resident status on or before the expiry of the authorized period. Your temporary resident status in Canada expired on October 17, 2019 and your application was made on February 21, 2020.
[X] You are a person in Canada without temporary resident status who is not eligible for restoration under Section 182 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations.
[X] You are a person in Canada without legal status and as such are required to leave Canada immediately. If you do not leave Canada voluntarily, enforcement action may be taken against you.
The letter states that I have been out of status since October 17, 2019 but this isn't true. I applied to extend my visitor visa on October 9th, 2019 and had my application approved on January 29, 2020. I had until March 1st to apply for another extension which means I still had my status until a decision was made on my next extension. I applied for another extension on February 21st, 2020 and got a refusal letter today stating that they could not extend my stay because I was out of status since October... I have the papers too prove that this simply wasn't the case.
Is there anything I could do to appeal this? Am I eligible to apply to restore my status? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you so much in advance!
