Worked more hours than study permit allowed...please help

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Hello, everyone. I WORKED full time this summer, however, i just found out that there was no "scheduled break" for graudate students in our unversity, though no courses in our college were actually offered. I consulted with two CIC people, they said yes you can work in the summer, so I started to work.

I have already stopped working.

I am wondering what should i do next? I am applying for a study permit extension and a post graduate work permit at the same time. Do I upload a supporing material and let CIC know this immediately?

Or maybe I just try to hide and wish they don't find out? However, I have two applications going on and will apply for PR in the near future. Will they find out me there?

Or maybe I contact with some lawyer and start to appeal? Because a CIC officer told me I could work fulltime that's why I worked.

Please help.... I am really worried now...

 

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However, if I explain to CIC right now, I may have a bad record on my file, and that will also affect my PR application in future.

I think they could be kindly let me keep on staying in Canada, but I think the chance of my PGWP approval would be pretty low.

 

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I'm in a similar situation, I graduated and was told by CIC (called them THREE TIMES about this stuff) that I could work part time this summer before starting my new program, idk what to think about my study permit extension application....
I'm pretty sure you're fine because you've applied for pgwp and that allows you to work (it's somewhere on the cic website that if you graduated and applied for pgwp, you can work; it's a recent change), I wouldn't worry as much, but since we have somewhat ambiguous cases, I think we're just gonna have to wait :/...

Thank you so much for your reply!

However, I had worked for 3 months, before I applied for post graduate work permit, cuz I thought I could work full time in the summer.

So I am very much worried, cuz it was illegal.

I am not quite sure whether you can work in the summer. I called CIC, some of them said that once you graduated, you would have no right to work at all. But someone else said you could still work 20 hrs/week. That's really confusing and misleading. So I suggest you record the conversation down whenever you get a positive answer regarding your questions.

That's what I am doing right now. Different CIC people answer your question differently, that why I got mislead and fell into illegal work this summer!!!!