Hello All,
I have a question that I would like to ask. A little background first. I became a permanent resident of Canada in 2006. I stayed for about 2 months as my family and I rushed into things in the way to Canada then I went back to my country as my husband and I have work related obligations there. Then, I returned to Canada in January 2007, tried to look for a job and went through the hurtles of validating my credentials from back home, which took about 4 months. Afterwards, I started looking for a job in the education sector or psychology as I'm a counseling professor upto the end of October 2007, but with no luck! So I decided to go back home and teach for a semester as I was broke and my husband barely could keep up with expenses of our children. The next time I entered Canada was June 2008 and stayed to November (about 5 months), did the same thing in 2009 stayed for 5 months and 6 months in 2010. As my PR was about to expire in August 2011, I filled up the renewal form and mailed it. Every thing went fine till the day I went to pickup my card on July 13th. The agent asked form my passports, which I handed them to her. However, The passport that I used to enter Canada in 2008 was not among the ones I gave as it was recalled by my home country government as it turned out that the security features on were easy to replicate and apparently there were a lot of fake ones.
Bottom line, the agent refused to give my new PR on the grounds that the passport of 2008 is missing and was told to wait to be interviewed with an agent. I waited, and I did my home work and asked what kind of document they usually request (got the list from the immigration call centre). Went to the interview with all the documents including my entries and exists from my country boarders, which turned to be the only paper that the agent looked at. Unfortunately, there was an error on that paper and to make matters worse, its in the 2008 year. According to the paper I presented, I left my country to Canada on May 2008, but from the Canadian boarders side I got into Canada in June, which is the correct date. May (5) and June (6) are written in a very similar way in my mother tongue and I know its a mistake done by the boarder officer there. I tried to convince the agent of that, but since I don't have that particular passport, I have no proof and the agent said that she needs the 2008 passport, which I cannot get it was certainly destroyed by my home country.
Now its been 2 weeks since the interview, and I definitely cannot get the passport and I have not heard from immigration Canada. I'm currently in Canada (since the past 3 months) but I have to get back home as I renewed my contract with my employer for another year (need the money). I'm supposed to leave next week and I have no clue what to do. I've done my minimum days the 720, but because of my bad luck I'm in this trouble.
Any thoughts and suggestions? I'm planning to call the agent and ask.
I have a question that I would like to ask. A little background first. I became a permanent resident of Canada in 2006. I stayed for about 2 months as my family and I rushed into things in the way to Canada then I went back to my country as my husband and I have work related obligations there. Then, I returned to Canada in January 2007, tried to look for a job and went through the hurtles of validating my credentials from back home, which took about 4 months. Afterwards, I started looking for a job in the education sector or psychology as I'm a counseling professor upto the end of October 2007, but with no luck! So I decided to go back home and teach for a semester as I was broke and my husband barely could keep up with expenses of our children. The next time I entered Canada was June 2008 and stayed to November (about 5 months), did the same thing in 2009 stayed for 5 months and 6 months in 2010. As my PR was about to expire in August 2011, I filled up the renewal form and mailed it. Every thing went fine till the day I went to pickup my card on July 13th. The agent asked form my passports, which I handed them to her. However, The passport that I used to enter Canada in 2008 was not among the ones I gave as it was recalled by my home country government as it turned out that the security features on were easy to replicate and apparently there were a lot of fake ones.
Bottom line, the agent refused to give my new PR on the grounds that the passport of 2008 is missing and was told to wait to be interviewed with an agent. I waited, and I did my home work and asked what kind of document they usually request (got the list from the immigration call centre). Went to the interview with all the documents including my entries and exists from my country boarders, which turned to be the only paper that the agent looked at. Unfortunately, there was an error on that paper and to make matters worse, its in the 2008 year. According to the paper I presented, I left my country to Canada on May 2008, but from the Canadian boarders side I got into Canada in June, which is the correct date. May (5) and June (6) are written in a very similar way in my mother tongue and I know its a mistake done by the boarder officer there. I tried to convince the agent of that, but since I don't have that particular passport, I have no proof and the agent said that she needs the 2008 passport, which I cannot get it was certainly destroyed by my home country.
Now its been 2 weeks since the interview, and I definitely cannot get the passport and I have not heard from immigration Canada. I'm currently in Canada (since the past 3 months) but I have to get back home as I renewed my contract with my employer for another year (need the money). I'm supposed to leave next week and I have no clue what to do. I've done my minimum days the 720, but because of my bad luck I'm in this trouble.
Any thoughts and suggestions? I'm planning to call the agent and ask.
