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saintgujjar

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Dec 1, 2013
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Hi, I was going through canadavisa.com's pages about applying as a refugee in Canada.
Some of my questions got answered
through this forum, but I couldn't know much about the tested procedure for a
Pakistani claiming as a refugee.I am a converted shia and was previously a sunni,so i had to face a lot of pressure and threats from some negative forces. Later on i sent for a proposal to my class fellows family for marriage but they refused because was a shia and that girl converted as well. We had to knock at the courts door and got married there,acyually it was a court marriage. My in laws started threatening us through calls and letters and once by a murder attempt. I have its police file. Meanwhile i was writing a book based on historical events of islam and i disclosed some bitter realities in it about some sunni so called heroes from the history that were hard to digest for the sunni muslims here keeping in mind that pakistans national and governmental religion is SUNNI ISLAM and our current ruling political party is backing up anti shia militant forces for shia genocide. Now i am having threats from my inlaws and also from some sunni leaders. I fear that they might torture me and my family to death due to my last written book. I want to leave my home country and get asylum in canada. But currently i can only afford my travel expenses and not my wife's. I have a few questions in this regard. I hope you won't mind spending some minutes to answer them:
1)can i apply for refugee status when i am on a visitors visa?
2)what are the maximum expenses of a refugee lawyer?
3)hoping for the best. After getting a positive decision, would it be possible for me to call my wife and mother in canada?they are all my family.
4)as soon as i claim for refugee status,would i be allowd to work their so that i can afford my living expenses?
5)what are the chances of a positive decision in my case?
Please answer me..its urgent. Hope youll spend some minutes for me.
 
1. Yes you can.
2. There is no maximum.
3. You can include your wife in the application because she is a dependent. You cannot include your mother. Canada does allow permanent residents / citizens to sponsor their parents, however there are a number of criteria you must meet (minimum income level, at least 3 years of tax returns filed in Canada). Assume it will take many years (more than 5 years) for your mother to approved to come to Canada after you get a positive decision.
4. You may qualify for a work permit if CIC determines that you do not have the funds to support yourself.
5. Impossible for any of us to say.