Hi everyone,
My husband and me are facing a very unpleasant situation and we are wondering if some of you went through the same.
We became permanent residents on September 27th, 2015, but we stayed in Canada only a few days as we needed to move back to Germany for work. For this reason, we didn't provide CIC with any Canadian address. Therefore, no PR card was sent to us. On April 4th, 2018, we re entered the country to settle here permanently and we sent the application for our first card. To our great surprise, we found out that we are considered as we are renewing our card. This unfortunately means we have to wait at least 100 days (latest update from CIC). What we also found out is that, without our PR card, no SIN number can be requested and so no possibility to work here for an indefinite period of time. My husband was supposed to start working a few days after our arrival but, because of the SIN number, he simply cannot. We are permanent residents but we cannot work, and this is quite discouraging.
Did some of you face the same situation? How much did you wait? Were you contacted for a secondary review?
Thank you very much in advance
Regards,
Michela
My husband and me are facing a very unpleasant situation and we are wondering if some of you went through the same.
We became permanent residents on September 27th, 2015, but we stayed in Canada only a few days as we needed to move back to Germany for work. For this reason, we didn't provide CIC with any Canadian address. Therefore, no PR card was sent to us. On April 4th, 2018, we re entered the country to settle here permanently and we sent the application for our first card. To our great surprise, we found out that we are considered as we are renewing our card. This unfortunately means we have to wait at least 100 days (latest update from CIC). What we also found out is that, without our PR card, no SIN number can be requested and so no possibility to work here for an indefinite period of time. My husband was supposed to start working a few days after our arrival but, because of the SIN number, he simply cannot. We are permanent residents but we cannot work, and this is quite discouraging.
Did some of you face the same situation? How much did you wait? Were you contacted for a secondary review?
Thank you very much in advance
Regards,
Michela