Just a silly random question on that...if you are American ("dual" Canadian) and crossing to U.S. could you just hand them your Canadian passport and tell them you're Canadian? Then you don't have to carry two passports or renew your American one?CanAmerica said:
To my knowledge as long as CIC receives your app for an OWP before the expiry date of your visitors visa then you are absolutely fine. In my case, my visitors visa expired July 31st, and even though I applied to renew it back on June 15th, they haven't opened it yet so they considered me "out of status" when they opened my OWP app.konstantinos said:
If I understood correctly, what happened in your case is because you didn't send your OWP app with your PR app, when you applied back in November. If you had done so, there shouldn't be a problem, is that so?joce288 said:
, and as for me, I go to study some french!I have plenty of time to try to learn!!!Correct, I didn't apply with my PR app because I actually didn't know it was an option.. I wish I had though that's for sure. I'm really just frustrated because as I'm sure everyone else feels..financially it is very hard..and in my case, with a new baby, even more difficult. I just want to be able to work..and if Vegreville's times weren't so slow with visitors visas, mine would have already been opened and my OWP would have then been approvedkonstantinos said:If I understood correctly, what happened in your case is because you didn't send your OWP app with your PR app, when you applied back in November. If you had done so, there shouldn't be a problem, is that so?
In spite this delay, it seems the hard part is over for you and soon you will be able to work!! Congratulations! If you have it by October as you said, your waiting has been almost a year, 11 months... the more the time pass the more I realise that the 6 months of waiting that I was told by the agent in the begginning,will be at least 1 year for me... especially with the time that has increased to 8-9 months , plus the process with immigation quebec for me.
Enjoy the rest, it's not much
But yes, just another month for me and I'll be able to work..mind you as long as the time line for that stays at 20 days.
That is frustrating. Also I think it is completely unfair that we have to redo the medical exam, with our own money, if it expires. I mean, if they are taking like a year to process these things anyway, why do they expect us to take it before we apply? Why don't they tell us to take it after processing, because otherwise, things expire on their time and we are expected to pay for a new exam. It just doesn't make any sense.joce288 said:Correct, I didn't apply with my PR app because I actually didn't know it was an option.. I wish I had though that's for sure. I'm really just frustrated because as I'm sure everyone else feels..financially it is very hard..and in my case, with a new baby, even more difficult. I just want to be able to work..and if Vegreville's times weren't so slow with visitors visas, mine would have already been opened and my OWP would have then been approved
I agree!. it would make sense to ask us to send in our medicals AFTER they have started processing, because these medicals take money and as you said its their fault that these medicals expire!. JMHO!..BlueDragon17846 said:
maybe they doing business for the country too by telling ppl to do their medicals several times, so Canada collects some money from that.. sincerely they dont really care bout applicatnts' frustrations and so.BlueDragon17846 said:
I agree...In my case I couldn't do my medicals until April since I was pregnant when I applied in Nov...so I also waited to send in my fingerprints to the FBI because they expire after 6 months. Their process is just completely unfair. I was also wondering.. when you're granted residency and need to pay the 490$..how long do you have to pay that??BlueDragon17846 said:
Hi, I am a December applicant(my application arrived on Dec 8 2009)Black-Berry said:
