I have lived in Canada for 21 years as the daughter of a diplomat (diplomatic status), from the time I was 8 months old to 21 years old.
After my father retired and returned to his home country, remained in Canada to continue my studies and my life there, with an international student status.
I Finished my studies this spring (May 2015). Due to very inconvenient and odd timing relating to the renewal of my study permit, I only had a very short time period to apply for a Post-Graduation Work Permit to get my next status in Canada to remain there as a freshly graduated university student looking for work (I received my renewed Study Permit status is mid-June, had until mid-July to apply for my next status.)
Very unfortunately, my mother got sick back my country of birth, and I had to rush to her side. Therefore I had to apply for the post-graduation work permit from there. (Note that nowhere does it say that this is not allowed - many people have done so in the past.)
Again, unfortunately, my application got lost in the mail for a month, and because of that it was refused; Immigration Canada claimed they received it too late.
I sent a letter of protest, showing proof that I had sent it on time and had no control over how long the mailing process would take - I took the best option available, which, according to my best knowledge, would deliver the application package on time. It has been over a month have not received a reply about that yet.
Since I have an apartment and car that I am continuing to pay for back in Canada, as well as all the belongings I have gathered in my life, I need to return as fast as possible.
I applied for a visitor visa, which was refused to me also because they consider that I do not have sufficient proof that I will not try to remain in Canada past the time of my visit. (Though I showed that I had employment and study prospects in my home country for the upcoming summer onwards.)
I could and will retry to apply for a visitor visa with stronger proof of my ties to Latvia.
But, in the longer run, I am not sure which approaches I could tackle next in order to be able to go to Canada and remain there, since I consider it my home country and lived only there for 99% of my life. Any ideas?
I just graduated from university in architecture, so though I have a good profession, I don't have any job nor much experience, and I hear it is not that easy to find a job for university graduates (my friends and colleagues needed on average 6-7 months at least to find employment).
Could you provide me with creative ideas/different angles that I could take in order to reach my goal to come back to Canada?
After my father retired and returned to his home country, remained in Canada to continue my studies and my life there, with an international student status.
I Finished my studies this spring (May 2015). Due to very inconvenient and odd timing relating to the renewal of my study permit, I only had a very short time period to apply for a Post-Graduation Work Permit to get my next status in Canada to remain there as a freshly graduated university student looking for work (I received my renewed Study Permit status is mid-June, had until mid-July to apply for my next status.)
Very unfortunately, my mother got sick back my country of birth, and I had to rush to her side. Therefore I had to apply for the post-graduation work permit from there. (Note that nowhere does it say that this is not allowed - many people have done so in the past.)
Again, unfortunately, my application got lost in the mail for a month, and because of that it was refused; Immigration Canada claimed they received it too late.
I sent a letter of protest, showing proof that I had sent it on time and had no control over how long the mailing process would take - I took the best option available, which, according to my best knowledge, would deliver the application package on time. It has been over a month have not received a reply about that yet.
Since I have an apartment and car that I am continuing to pay for back in Canada, as well as all the belongings I have gathered in my life, I need to return as fast as possible.
I applied for a visitor visa, which was refused to me also because they consider that I do not have sufficient proof that I will not try to remain in Canada past the time of my visit. (Though I showed that I had employment and study prospects in my home country for the upcoming summer onwards.)
I could and will retry to apply for a visitor visa with stronger proof of my ties to Latvia.
But, in the longer run, I am not sure which approaches I could tackle next in order to be able to go to Canada and remain there, since I consider it my home country and lived only there for 99% of my life. Any ideas?
I just graduated from university in architecture, so though I have a good profession, I don't have any job nor much experience, and I hear it is not that easy to find a job for university graduates (my friends and colleagues needed on average 6-7 months at least to find employment).
Could you provide me with creative ideas/different angles that I could take in order to reach my goal to come back to Canada?
