I took my test today (studied hard and scored 100%) and was afterwards given a Residence Questionnaire by the officer who interviewed me. During this interview, the official aggressively questioned me about entries and exits from Canada not listed in my application. He made them appear as oversights. I unthinkingly apologized. After I left the building with the RQ form in hand, I realized that the entries he had questioned me about had occurred several months prior to the relevant period upon which my 1095 days were counted. I had not included entries from February 2008 because I had filed my application in June 2012.
It is my understanding that nothing before June 2008 was relevant. It actually occurred to me to say this while the officer was interviewing me, but he was so confident I thought I must have been mistaken.
(Perhaps he was annoyed because we were in Montreal and I was coming off like an Anglophone-type at that moment as a result of being too nervous to practice my intermediate-level French. If the consequences were not so severe, I could almost be sympathetic to that. Perhaps he just did the math wrong.)
Still, I went back to the building only to find that official had left for the weekend. His colleague checked my file, heard my protest, but was not impressed.
Here are my questions:
Don't officials need a legitimate reason to serve this form which will delay the entire application process significantly? Filling out the form itself should be no problem since I will simply repeat the same information. But won't the RQ delay my time until oath by 48 months?
I also didn't know what the RQ was earlier today when I took the test. The official told me that the form would help me by helping the judge make a decision. The colleague of the person also said that the form would expedite the process because the judge would have given it to me anyway. But none of this appears to be true.
Rather, this event seems to run against the ethics of an immigration system that has been previously lauded globally for its fairness and transparency. If I am being targeted for a non-reason, I can only imagine what happens for immigrants in worse positions, for whom officials simply don't like the cut of their jib.
Please tell me I'm wrong somehow. My experience with institutions in Montreal has been positive until this.
All best,
Sadness
It is my understanding that nothing before June 2008 was relevant. It actually occurred to me to say this while the officer was interviewing me, but he was so confident I thought I must have been mistaken.
(Perhaps he was annoyed because we were in Montreal and I was coming off like an Anglophone-type at that moment as a result of being too nervous to practice my intermediate-level French. If the consequences were not so severe, I could almost be sympathetic to that. Perhaps he just did the math wrong.)
Still, I went back to the building only to find that official had left for the weekend. His colleague checked my file, heard my protest, but was not impressed.
Here are my questions:
Don't officials need a legitimate reason to serve this form which will delay the entire application process significantly? Filling out the form itself should be no problem since I will simply repeat the same information. But won't the RQ delay my time until oath by 48 months?
I also didn't know what the RQ was earlier today when I took the test. The official told me that the form would help me by helping the judge make a decision. The colleague of the person also said that the form would expedite the process because the judge would have given it to me anyway. But none of this appears to be true.
Rather, this event seems to run against the ethics of an immigration system that has been previously lauded globally for its fairness and transparency. If I am being targeted for a non-reason, I can only imagine what happens for immigrants in worse positions, for whom officials simply don't like the cut of their jib.
Please tell me I'm wrong somehow. My experience with institutions in Montreal has been positive until this.
All best,
Sadness