I am a US Citizen (natural born) and I was working in Canada on a 1 year work permit. I received a DUI conviction (the only one I have ever had) about 9 months into my working there. One evening I had to go back to the states for some personal and family issues and when I came back to the border, I was given a deportation order, thus I am inadmissible to enter into Canada until I have received a Record Suspension and an ARC. I have been working on and dealing with the Authorization to Return to Canada for about 3 years now.
It used to be (from my understanding) that you MUST apply for an ARC on a separate basis. Now according to the CIC website: "If you are applying to come to Canada for any reason, (visiting, studying, working or immigrating),you should not submit a separate application for an ARC. If your application is approved, the ARC will be dealt within the context of that application. You will simply be asked to submit the fee."
To me it appears that if you were to apply for some sort of permit ... thus a specific reason for entering Canada, then your ARC is handled right then and there, in context with the permit you are applying for. I contacted the immigration officers at the border crossing that issued the deportation order and asked them specifically what this meant. When I asked them their understanding, the individual asked me to be put on hold and then they questioned their Chief IO. The Chief IO said that "yes" they do have the authority to issue ARC's at the border, but it is extremely uncommon. I was also told that if I went to the Border and applied for a Work Permit without having received an approved ARC before hand, then I would run the risk of being issued a second deportation order if I was denied the Work Permit at the border.
When I looked into this issue a bit more, I got to wondering if the Canadian Consulate in NYC (they handle work permit and similar applications) would be able to issue ARC's in the same context. Their website gives no indication as such, but if they were to follow the same guidelines as is laid out on CIC's own website and if my understanding is correct, then they too should be able to treat the need for an ARC in conjunction with a valid permit application to Canada. I have reached out to them via email about 2 weeks ago, but I have not heard anything back, other then an automated email reply that acted as a receipt for the email inquiry I sent to them.
Does anyone have any current knowledge and thus input into the subject of ARC's and my understanding of the rules?
Does anyone have any knowledge on whether a person who has not received an ARC and approaches the Canadian Border for a work permit (very common place to apply for such a thing), but is denied, will automatically be issued a Deportation Order, rather then a Departure Order (take into account that from my understanding, the ARC is dealt with in conjunction of the Work Permit application)?
It used to be (from my understanding) that you MUST apply for an ARC on a separate basis. Now according to the CIC website: "If you are applying to come to Canada for any reason, (visiting, studying, working or immigrating),you should not submit a separate application for an ARC. If your application is approved, the ARC will be dealt within the context of that application. You will simply be asked to submit the fee."
To me it appears that if you were to apply for some sort of permit ... thus a specific reason for entering Canada, then your ARC is handled right then and there, in context with the permit you are applying for. I contacted the immigration officers at the border crossing that issued the deportation order and asked them specifically what this meant. When I asked them their understanding, the individual asked me to be put on hold and then they questioned their Chief IO. The Chief IO said that "yes" they do have the authority to issue ARC's at the border, but it is extremely uncommon. I was also told that if I went to the Border and applied for a Work Permit without having received an approved ARC before hand, then I would run the risk of being issued a second deportation order if I was denied the Work Permit at the border.
When I looked into this issue a bit more, I got to wondering if the Canadian Consulate in NYC (they handle work permit and similar applications) would be able to issue ARC's in the same context. Their website gives no indication as such, but if they were to follow the same guidelines as is laid out on CIC's own website and if my understanding is correct, then they too should be able to treat the need for an ARC in conjunction with a valid permit application to Canada. I have reached out to them via email about 2 weeks ago, but I have not heard anything back, other then an automated email reply that acted as a receipt for the email inquiry I sent to them.
Does anyone have any current knowledge and thus input into the subject of ARC's and my understanding of the rules?
Does anyone have any knowledge on whether a person who has not received an ARC and approaches the Canadian Border for a work permit (very common place to apply for such a thing), but is denied, will automatically be issued a Deportation Order, rather then a Departure Order (take into account that from my understanding, the ARC is dealt with in conjunction of the Work Permit application)?
