Hi there!!!
My name is Carlos and I am Spanish. My situation is detailed below:
- I arrived to Canada with the IEC Working Holiday Visa last Oct 2012 and I have been living in Ottawa since then.
- On June 2013, I submitted the PR application form (family category inside Canada - my Canadian wife is sponsoring me) plus the application to extend my visa (IMM5710E application to change conditions, extend my stay or remain in Canada as a worker).
- On October 2013, my IEC Working Holiday Visa expired (CIC has told me that I have an implied status given that I submitted the IMM5710E before the expiration of my IEC Working Holiday Visa. The problem is that I haven't any CIC document as evidence of my implied status).
- I have only received one email from CIC telling me that they have received my application and in the CIC website the status of my application is: processing 11 months.
- I have just found a job in a Canadian company and they need to send me to South Corea for six months in a couple of weeks.
- I have called CIC several times and they have told me that "it is up to the border agent" to let me in Canada once I finish working abroad. They have also told me that if I leave Canada I will loose my implied status.
I believe I can take the risk. The reason is that CIC should have finished investigating my wife by the time I will have to come back. Hopefully, my wife will receive my visa extension by mail or email and send it to me before I have to cross the Canadian border. I believe I better have something else besides my European passport to go through customs (just in case).
Another detail is that I still have to pass the medical test. I don't think it would be an issue to do it outside of Canada if CIC requests it while I am abroad.
I think I have covered all the possibilities and logically I should not have any problem (nowadays its pretty common professionals processing immigration papers in whatever country while they are somewhere else in business trips...).
Please let me know your opinion and if I should be aware of any detail that would ruin my PR application.
Thank you very much for your time.
Carlos
My name is Carlos and I am Spanish. My situation is detailed below:
- I arrived to Canada with the IEC Working Holiday Visa last Oct 2012 and I have been living in Ottawa since then.
- On June 2013, I submitted the PR application form (family category inside Canada - my Canadian wife is sponsoring me) plus the application to extend my visa (IMM5710E application to change conditions, extend my stay or remain in Canada as a worker).
- On October 2013, my IEC Working Holiday Visa expired (CIC has told me that I have an implied status given that I submitted the IMM5710E before the expiration of my IEC Working Holiday Visa. The problem is that I haven't any CIC document as evidence of my implied status).
- I have only received one email from CIC telling me that they have received my application and in the CIC website the status of my application is: processing 11 months.
- I have just found a job in a Canadian company and they need to send me to South Corea for six months in a couple of weeks.
- I have called CIC several times and they have told me that "it is up to the border agent" to let me in Canada once I finish working abroad. They have also told me that if I leave Canada I will loose my implied status.
I believe I can take the risk. The reason is that CIC should have finished investigating my wife by the time I will have to come back. Hopefully, my wife will receive my visa extension by mail or email and send it to me before I have to cross the Canadian border. I believe I better have something else besides my European passport to go through customs (just in case).
Another detail is that I still have to pass the medical test. I don't think it would be an issue to do it outside of Canada if CIC requests it while I am abroad.
I think I have covered all the possibilities and logically I should not have any problem (nowadays its pretty common professionals processing immigration papers in whatever country while they are somewhere else in business trips...).
Please let me know your opinion and if I should be aware of any detail that would ruin my PR application.
Thank you very much for your time.
Carlos