I am interested in others' experience with the Canadian criminal rehabilitation process.
I received three DUIs in 1972, 1973 and 1975 respectiviely. I have travelled to Canada at least twice a year successfully in the succeeding years with no problem. In 2014 I was stopped at the border and told I was inadmissable because of the DUIs even though they were almost a half century ago and I had travelled to Canada regularly in the intervening years. Thus began a nightmare.
I hired an attorney and did all the legwork to achieve rehabilitation. Over a year after I filed the application I was rejected because I had not provided information on two states in which I had lived. Odd thing was that they had not asked for info on those states, only on those states in which the DUIs occurred. Neither my attorney nor the Canadian immigration people told me that was required. So, Iwent completely back through the process and now have been waiting almost two years for an answer.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? I am no 72 years old and believe I'll be too old to travel before they get around to me.
I received three DUIs in 1972, 1973 and 1975 respectiviely. I have travelled to Canada at least twice a year successfully in the succeeding years with no problem. In 2014 I was stopped at the border and told I was inadmissable because of the DUIs even though they were almost a half century ago and I had travelled to Canada regularly in the intervening years. Thus began a nightmare.
I hired an attorney and did all the legwork to achieve rehabilitation. Over a year after I filed the application I was rejected because I had not provided information on two states in which I had lived. Odd thing was that they had not asked for info on those states, only on those states in which the DUIs occurred. Neither my attorney nor the Canadian immigration people told me that was required. So, Iwent completely back through the process and now have been waiting almost two years for an answer.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? I am no 72 years old and believe I'll be too old to travel before they get around to me.
