Hi,
I am a US citizen and PR whose residency renewal was rejected based on number of days present in Canada. I was missing about 7 days. I had job, business and an adopted son here in Canada but the judge rejected all my appeals ( possibly because I wasn't prepared) and did not hire an attorney to represent me. I was kind of given an impression that my case was easy and judge would let me renew my PR since I had only 7 days missing and had business, work and property in Canada.
After appeal, judge denied my renewal and ordered removal via departure order. He said since I was a US citizen I can come to visit my son anytime and so PR was not necessary.
Anyway, my removal order said that CBSA would contact me regarding how to depart. I departed immediately following the removal order and went to USA. I came back after a month and CBSA at the airport did not say anything but let me in without any problem. I left and came back again. This was the 3rd time I came back into Canada and I asked CBSA officer about my removal order and that nobody contacted me. She told me at the Montreal Airport that there was no activity in my case so she was letting me in.
A few days later, I received a call from local CBSA officer who asked me to come into his office to fill out papers etc. During interview he told me that I never left Canada after my departure order and he can not see in his system that I left Canada so he would be proceeding with deportation procedure.
I told him I left immediately following departure order and came back and I am leaving again. He asked for evidence and I showed him all the evidence. He then continued that he was not in a position to reverse deportation proceeding since I did not contact CBSA at the airport or in the city prior to my departure. I told him that the departure order from Judge clearly stated that CBSA will contact. The officer replied that no, I was supposed to contact them and so he was proceeding with deportation order. He asked me to sign few papers which I did. He also told me that since he is proceeding with a deportation, I may run into problems coming back into Canada although I am a US citizen. He said I would need a authorization from embassy prior to coming back into Canada.
He looked at all my evidence and said he was surprised my case ended up like this even though I did leave Canada and was forthcoming with all answers and documentation that they requested. He said despite I was right he was not in a position to do anything as he did not have authority.
While living in Canada, I invested over 1/2 a million into that country, worked as Director within Cyber Security industry, worked as volunteer, lived as a bonafide citizen, however none of that played any role and my PR was rejected and I am being literally deported because CBSA made a mistake.
My question is: Is there anything I can do to reverse this? Where do go from here. Their system seems to be broken as the CBSA officer could not find my departure record or arrival however I handed him my passport, he was able to pull all that information. But since he had completed deportation proceedings, he couldn't go back and fix it and had no authority to do anything
I am a US citizen and PR whose residency renewal was rejected based on number of days present in Canada. I was missing about 7 days. I had job, business and an adopted son here in Canada but the judge rejected all my appeals ( possibly because I wasn't prepared) and did not hire an attorney to represent me. I was kind of given an impression that my case was easy and judge would let me renew my PR since I had only 7 days missing and had business, work and property in Canada.
After appeal, judge denied my renewal and ordered removal via departure order. He said since I was a US citizen I can come to visit my son anytime and so PR was not necessary.
Anyway, my removal order said that CBSA would contact me regarding how to depart. I departed immediately following the removal order and went to USA. I came back after a month and CBSA at the airport did not say anything but let me in without any problem. I left and came back again. This was the 3rd time I came back into Canada and I asked CBSA officer about my removal order and that nobody contacted me. She told me at the Montreal Airport that there was no activity in my case so she was letting me in.
A few days later, I received a call from local CBSA officer who asked me to come into his office to fill out papers etc. During interview he told me that I never left Canada after my departure order and he can not see in his system that I left Canada so he would be proceeding with deportation procedure.
I told him I left immediately following departure order and came back and I am leaving again. He asked for evidence and I showed him all the evidence. He then continued that he was not in a position to reverse deportation proceeding since I did not contact CBSA at the airport or in the city prior to my departure. I told him that the departure order from Judge clearly stated that CBSA will contact. The officer replied that no, I was supposed to contact them and so he was proceeding with deportation order. He asked me to sign few papers which I did. He also told me that since he is proceeding with a deportation, I may run into problems coming back into Canada although I am a US citizen. He said I would need a authorization from embassy prior to coming back into Canada.
He looked at all my evidence and said he was surprised my case ended up like this even though I did leave Canada and was forthcoming with all answers and documentation that they requested. He said despite I was right he was not in a position to do anything as he did not have authority.
While living in Canada, I invested over 1/2 a million into that country, worked as Director within Cyber Security industry, worked as volunteer, lived as a bonafide citizen, however none of that played any role and my PR was rejected and I am being literally deported because CBSA made a mistake.
My question is: Is there anything I can do to reverse this? Where do go from here. Their system seems to be broken as the CBSA officer could not find my departure record or arrival however I handed him my passport, he was able to pull all that information. But since he had completed deportation proceedings, he couldn't go back and fix it and had no authority to do anything
Last edited:
