Lost passport and visa, tried to reapply, got rejected twice. What are my next steps?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 19 Jul, 2023
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11/8/2019 4:17:05 PM
OK, you’ve done pretty much everything wrong so far.
- When you changed your course of study you should have told immigration. You wouldn’t have needed a new study permit.
- When you lost your study permit and visitor visa you should have applied for a copy, not applied for a new visa.
- It is not surprising that you were refused another study permit since you already had one. If you hadn’t told Canadian immigration that you had changed colleges, and you applied in the name of the new one, then it is even less surprising. They won’t grant you a permit to study at a college if they think you are already studying at a different one.
- You did not need a lawyer to fix the mistakes in the visa and permit (like a wrong gender). You should simply have contacted immigration as soon as you got them. It is important that you do this, because having the wrong gender means the document looks like it might be fake.
- Your gender, whether correct on your study permit or not, would not have affected whether you were given part time work hours. Discriminating on the basis of gender would be illegal in Canada.
- There are serious restrictions on what work you can do while in Canada on a study permit. That is more likely to have affected your ability to work. Or they may suspect your study permit is fake, because of the error in the gender.
- You should get mistakes in your passport corrected before you travel, by telling the Indian authorities.
- No, you cannot travel with scans of your visa or permit. You can theoretically still apply for a copy of your existing permits and visa, which should get you into Canada.
However, as Hanky Panky says, you and your lawyer have made a big mess of this by doing the wrong thing many times. It is likely that Canadian Immigration think there is something underhand happening.
I would ask for copies of your current visa and permit. And call your college and ask for advice. Most Canadian colleges have departments specifically set up to help International students, and may have someone who speaks your native language. If that does not work then either get a completely different lawyer (one with actual experience of Canadian visas) or abandon your studies in Canada.
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