Hello, kind folks,
A strange thing happened with our application today:
- Our OWP was approved last Saturday, 17 September 2022. Today, our Visitor Record application that we sent prior to submitting our spousal sponsorship application was approved.
Does this Visitor Record cancel out the work permit? Shouldn't IRCC have withdrawn the application seeing that my wife's OWP has already been approved? Does IRCC deem her a visitor now or a worker? Can you even hold two status permits, a work permit and a visitor record concurrently?
If the visitor record had been issued prior to the work permit, we wouldn't be worrying about it, but in this case, because the Visitor record was approved after the work permit was approved, I couldn't find any info on whether her OWP would be considered cancelled.
Please kindly let me know if anyone has any info on this or has had similar experiences. We've been left scratching our heads! Combing through the IRPR, the IRPA, this forum, and reddit doesn't yield any info on this, unless we somehow missed it!
Background:
11 July 2022 - Visitor Record application submitted online
26 July 2022 - Spousal Inland+OWP, paper-based, delivered by courier
29 July 2022 - Application received
31 August 2022 @ 4:15 AM PST - AOR received
31 August 2022 - Medical Exam requested & completed
7 September 2022, completed 8 September 2022 - Biometrics Instruction Letter (BIL) received
8 September 2022 - Biometrics passed
17 September 2022 - OWP approved
21 September 2022 - Visitor Record approved
We have not yet received an update on our medical exam either, and the clinic has submitted the forms almost 2 weeks ago.
Cheers!