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jade83

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Dec 18, 2014
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Hi everyone, I am seeking for an advice with my problem. I hope you could help me out.

I have been in the country for over 5 yrs now but I am still not a resident. The reason being that I first came here on a workers permit but 7 months after, I met an accident which resulted to a brain injury. I am unable to work and since then been staying in the country with a Temporary Resident Permit, I hired an immigration lawyer to help me with this. I needed to stay on for my therapies and doctor's appointments plus there was a legal case on going. My immigration lawyer told me that if I was given 3 consecutive TRPs, I would be able to apply as a Permanent Resident Permit after. This year would have been my fourth and last TRP bec this would have been the year that we would apply for a PR. Unfortunately, I found out that my TRP extension was denied and not because I received a letter from the immigration or from my lawyer but because I made a call to the immigration call center number two weeks ago. Before this I have been checking with my lawyer for the status of my application and each time, she tells me that they still don't have it and that when she called immigration, they would just tell her that it's in transit, this was back in August where I usually have received the TRPs. Even though I was alarmed, I trusted her bec she works for one of the biggest immigration law firms and that she was recommended to me by someone I highly value. The most unfortunate of this all is that the agent told me the decision was made in march of this year which means I have been out of status for 9 months now. My immigration still claims she didn't receive anything from immigration so to this day I don't have the actual refused application yet. I want to leave because the thought of doing something illegal scares me but unfortunately again, I can't do so right away bec I just got a condo in July, which I would never have done if I had gotten the denial on time. I have to mention that the whole time I've been in Canada, I wasn't using Gov't aid or even OHIP. I was getting financial aide from the insurance of the driver that hit me. And also that before I bought the condo, I sought the advice of my immigration lawyer and she said it was okay to purchase a property as this will be helpful when we apply for the PR status.

Now I am in a big dilemma, I do not want to be illegally staying in Canada and if I only found out in time, I would have exited the country right away, but I cannot do so because I need enough time to be able to take care of important matters like my condo and finances. I have been unable to get proper sleep ever since I found out about the decision. I couldn't stop crying as well, sometimes in the bus, the mall and most of the times at church.

Can anyone please tell me what I could do?

Terribly hurt, confused and exhausted,
Jade83