Application refused but received stamp in Passport

[ChengLop]

I am really confused.

I applied for Canada Visitor Visa last December and received the refusal letter this February due to incomplete documents.

But I received my passport with a visitor visa stamp that looks exactly like the visitor visa sample I found online.

Do you get a stamp on whether you got approved or not?

Does that mean I'm good to visit Canada?

Help plz

 

[ChengLop]

By the way, on the stamp, it has my name, date of birth, expiry date, etc... Basically every thing you would found on a valid stamp

 

[k.h.p.]

Since it's November now, when did you get your passport back if you were denied in February?

Did you apply through an agent? A consultant?

 

[ChengLop]

Since it's November now, when did you get your passport back if you were denied in February?

Did you apply through an agent? A consultant?

Thank for replying! I applied by myself online through the official Canada Visa Application website at the end of 2018 and got my passport and documents back in February, 2019.

I got the rejection letter on the application status page. But there is the Canada visa stamp attached in my passport. I don't know if it is valid for visiting Canada.

 

[subodhp]

Thank for replying! I applied by myself online through the official Canada Visa Application website at the end of 2018 and got my passport and documents back in February, 2019.

I got the rejection letter on the application status page. But there is the Canada visa stamp attached in my passport. I don't know if it is valid for visiting Canada.

Very strange, you got Visa after being rejected and you waited 6 months before asking this question. Is it possible to share a snapshot of rejection letter and Visa after masking any personal details.

 

[k.h.p.]

Thank for replying! I applied by myself online through the official Canada Visa Application website at the end of 2018 and got my passport and documents back in February, 2019.

I got the rejection letter on the application status page. But there is the Canada visa stamp attached in my passport. I don't know if it is valid for visiting Canada.

Why did you wait so long to ask this question?

What did the rejection letter say?

 

[@trigger]

If you applied online, you must have received email to submit the passport for further processing? Did you get any?

 

[k.h.p.]

If you applied online, you must have received email to submit the passport for further processing? Did you get any?

Yes, this is true. Something isn't stacking up.

 

[ChengLop]

Very strange, you got Visa after being rejected and you waited 6 months before asking this question. Is it possible to share a snapshot of rejection letter and Visa after masking any personal details.

Thanks for asking. I got my passport back after I received the rejection letter. So I didn't expect to have any stamp attached at that point, and I didn't check the passport. But recently, I am planning trips for Thanksgiving. So I just take a look of my passport and all the visas I had. And here it goes.

 

[ChengLop]

If you applied online, you must have received email to submit the passport for further processing? Did you get any?

Yes, thanks for asking. I went through the whole application process. I summited the application online, received the letter requesting documents, sent my passport and documents to the office, sent money order to the department, and I got the rejection letter and received my passport and documents back. I didn't check the passport since I got the rejection letter. I wasn't expecting the visa would be there. But I recently checked it for planning the Thanksgiving trip and it is actually there.

 

[ChengLop]

Here is the link to the rejection letter and the visa stamp with personal details masked. Please take a look and help. Thank you guys so much!

 

[subodhp]

Here is the link to the rejection letter and the visa stamp with personal details masked. Please take a look and help. Thank you guys so much!

Really strange, this is definitely a good problem to have. I can only think of below scenarios
1. Your Visa got approved in December but due to a mistake in their process they sent you a rejection in Feb (they waited 3 months) because 'they did not get your original passport'
2. Your Visa application was submitted for multiple folks/same person multiple times and while you got Visa, other person(s)/attempt(s) application was rejected because they did not get passport.

Either ways the Visa you hold seems to be a valid document. Your rejection was not on merits of your application but on account of not receiving passport (likely a clerical mistake)

So travel away! You could make a short visit across border via land route to check for validity.

If you really want to play safe (can't imagine why), you could call ircc to check on validity of document.

 

[ChengLop]

Really strange, this is definitely a good problem to have. I can only think of below scenarios
1. Your Visa got approved in December but due to a mistake in their process they sent you a rejection in Feb (they waited 3 months) because 'they did not get your original passport'
2. Your Visa application was submitted for multiple folks/same person multiple times and while you got Visa, other person(s)/attempt(s) application was rejected because they did not get passport.

Either ways the Visa you hold seems to be a valid document. Your rejection was not on merits of your application but on account of not receiving passport (likely a clerical mistake)

So travel away! You could make a short visit across border via land route to check for validity.

If you really want to play safe (can't imagine why), you could call ircc to check on validity of document.

Thank you!!! I have emailed the visa and immigration services about this situation, but haven't heard back from them yet. I tried to call the service center but there is no direct line to in-person talk. Should I just wait them to reply through email?

 

[k.h.p.]

Thank for replying! I applied by myself online through the official Canada Visa Application website at the end of 2018 and got my passport and documents back in February, 2019.

I got the rejection letter on the application status page. But there is the Canada visa stamp attached in my passport. I don't know if it is valid for visiting Canada.

You applied online, so at a certain point you got an email and a message online saying "Your request has been approved. We require your passport."

Then you didn't meet the deadline to submit your passport so you received the rejection letter.

Perhaps you sent your passport before you got the rejection letter, and it took a while to get where it was going. When your passport made it to IRCC, they saw that they had approved you for a visa but that they hadn't received the passport yet. So they inserted the counterfoil.

really, the key part here is that you got a letter at one point telling you were approved and to send your passport in.

 

[subodhp]

Thank you!!! I have emailed the visa and immigration services about this situation, but haven't heard back from them yet. I tried to call the service center but there is no direct line to in-person talk. Should I just wait them to reply through email?

I would not worry too much. You hold a valid Visa