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Urgent ! VO said that i failed to give up my Off Campus WP after finishing Schoo

I'm a bit late to the thread but if anyone is interested I for one did attempt to return my OCWP to a CIC office in person. After talking to a couple of people there, nobody knew such a procedure officially exists and they recommended I "keep it for my records".

It was due to expire soon though and I've already applied for PGWP.
 
nicole1006 said:
yep I think the vo is super slow... The due date for my case is sept 5... Hopefully something positive came,, I hope I really pass eligiblity...
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does ur eligibility say recommend pass or recommend passed? also does ur education and required work experience says met???
 
thisisauser said:
I'm a bit late to the thread but if anyone is interested I for one did attempt to return my OCWP to a CIC office in person. After talking to a couple of people there, nobody knew such a procedure officially exists and they recommended I "keep it for my records".

It was due to expire soon though and I've already applied for PGWP.
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u only need to return it if this link applies to u:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/study/work-offcampus-surrender.asp
 
thisisauser said:
I'm a bit late to the thread but if anyone is interested I for one did attempt to return my OCWP to a CIC office in person. After talking to a couple of people there, nobody knew such a procedure officially exists and they recommended I "keep it for my records".

It was due to expire soon though and I've already applied for PGWP.
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Yeah I didn't surrender my OCWP and I don't know anyone else who has. Today is the first I hear of such a thing.
 
ujbaby said:
does ur eligibility say recommend pass or recommend passed? also does ur education and required work experience says met???
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It says recommoned pass and everything is met except that sentence grabbed my attention.... Worrying
 
ujbaby said:
u only need to return it if this link applies to u:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/study/work-offcampus-surrender.asp
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I think I might fit into the third who did not study at a particular institution, but after I graduated I used ocwp as an bridge visa, to work....
 
nicole1006 said:
I think I might fit into the third who did not study at a particular institution, but after I graduated I used ocwp as an bridge visa, to work....
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it says participating institution not particular institution. I think ur good like other members suggest but u just need to stay positive!!!
 
oh sorry about that then should I return now ? Is it too late ?
 
jes_ON said:
Whew! That's good. The only thing I've seen happen is that they will exclude work experience that was not authorized. Since you still qualify, I think you'll be fine.
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Hey Jes_ON,
I'm kinda in the same situation here as nicole, just wondering if you or any seniors in this forum could give me any advise :)

Here's my time line:
Graduated June 2011, applied my PGWP right after graduation ceremony(application was sent to Bufflao), got a letter from bufflao at the end of August(the letter was dated Aug 5), saying my PGWP was approved, i may travel to Canada now and i need to use this letter to get my actual PGWP at the border customer.(that was weird cz at that time i was in Canada).

Started my full time job August 22nd, 2011, up till now, but the thing is CIC gave me one more year of SP and COOP WP while i renewed them on my 3rd year university, they expire at August 2012, while i actually graduated on June, 2011....So i started working using my coop WP and did not go get my actual PGWP. i went to border to get my PGWP on Feb 2012 and it was issued Feb 2012 ---Feb 2015.

I applied under CEC on May 2013 and by the time i applied i already have 1 year and 9 months of full time experience, now i'm worried that i have been illegally worked since August 2011 to Feb 2012.
But you just mentioned that CIC will only look at the working experience one year prior to the date of CEC application, any work experience before that will be automatically excluded? so even if i deduct this 6 months of "illegal" work before i get my PGWP, i still got 1 year and 3 months of experience and still elligible for CEC?

I actually asked a paid immigration consultant in Toronto and he is telling me the same thing. It is not right to work before PGWP but since i got enough experience even i dont take this period of time into account, the CIC will just ignore my working time before PGWP and starting counting after my PGWP was issued.

Any advise? thanks a lot!
 
Hey I think I got my issue now, I did not illegally stayed In canada, I just did not give back my off campus work permit... I think as long as I give back to them, it would be a big issue... As no one take it seriously... So I guess I will try to give back tomorrow
 
nicole1006 said:
Hey I think I got my issue now, I did not illegally stayed In canada, I just did not give back my off campus work permit... I think as long as I give back to them, it would be a big issue... As no one take it seriously... So I guess I will try to give back tomorrow
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Hey nicole you are just panicking. You do not need to return your expired ocwp now. It wont do any good and also they would not take it back because its already expired(i would think). The problem according to notes were that you did not return it when you completed your studies and kept working on it. So just take it easy and you should here good news soon because your eligibility is already recommended pass. Once your criminality is completed you will get MR soon.
 
cgel said:
Hey nicole you are just panicking. You do not need to return your expired ocwp now. It wont do any good and also they would not take it back because its already expired(i would think). The problem according to notes were that you did not return it when you completed your studies and kept working on it. So just take it easy and you should here good news soon because your eligibility is already recommended pass. Once your criminality is completed you will get MR soon.
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thanks Hun, I hope so., just wonder did u order your note as well ? Who was your vo?
 
cgel said:
Hey nicole you are just panicking. You do not need to return your expired ocwp now. It wont do any good and also they would not take it back because its already expired(i would think). The problem according to notes were that you did not return it when you completed your studies and kept working on it. So just take it easy and you should here good news soon because your eligibility is already recommended pass. Once your criminality is completed you will get MR soon.
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do they complete criminality b4 sending MR? can it be the reason why we havent received MR after passing eligibility? I also wondered what and what they check during criminality process? my gcms notes keep saying that criminality is in progress
 
cgel said:
Hey nicole you are just panicking. You do not need to return your expired ocwp now. It wont do any good and also they would not take it back because its already expired(i would think). The problem according to notes were that you did not return it when you completed your studies and kept working on it. So just take it easy and you should here good news soon because your eligibility is already recommended pass. Once your criminality is completed you will get MR soon.
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But at that time I was considered as a full time student as I only had 3 more courses to take.. And we can use ocwp to work after we graduated...so I did not returned... I hope they would understand... Hopefully they would not rejected me because of that
 
ujbaby said:
do they complete criminality b4 sending MR? can it be the reason why we havent received MR after passing eligibility? I also wondered what and what they check during criminality process?
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Dd you pass your eligiblity or recommoned pass?
 
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