Conditional Permanent Residency

[keesio]

Once you actually get approved for OWP, only then can you legally work. It doesn't means that your illegal work while out of status was legal or legal in CIC's eyes or that you were right. It just means that you weren't caught.

Doesn't sound like he denied he was working illegally. Just that he will get away with it.

*sigh* it is people like this where you understand why CIC makes us jump through hoops to get anything done. Condition 51 came about because of instances like this - people trying to game the system to their benefit.