acherontia
11-17-2007, 07:11 AM
Hi everyone!
This is my first post and I'm in a terrible bind.
I'm Australian and last year I went to Canada on a working holiday program. This program is strictly only for one year and cannot be extended. I loved living/working in Canada so much that I applied for a normal work visa because I wanted to stay! I spoke to 29347829374 million CIC staff to get as much information as possible because I wanted to be thorough and not overlook anything. My employer wrote a letter to support my application and requested an LMO from HRDC, but it came back as denied, along with my visa application. CIC then sent me a letter saying I had to leave Canada, because my (working holiday) visa had expired during the time all this paperwork was being processed.
So I spoke to CIC and discovered that I was advised to apply for the WRONG visa (the one where there's a shortage of Canadians for certain industries), and that I actually needed to apply for the skilled worker visa. I left Canada within the week and returned to Australia.
So now I want to apply for PR as a skilled worker, but my question is, because I was asked to leave Canada, will I be allowed to do this? I've looked on the CIC site and on google, etc, but I couldn't find any information anywhere. I didn't break any laws or live in Canada illegally, I just unknowingly applied for the wrong visa. :(
I would greatly appreciate ANY help you could provide.
This is my first post and I'm in a terrible bind.
I'm Australian and last year I went to Canada on a working holiday program. This program is strictly only for one year and cannot be extended. I loved living/working in Canada so much that I applied for a normal work visa because I wanted to stay! I spoke to 29347829374 million CIC staff to get as much information as possible because I wanted to be thorough and not overlook anything. My employer wrote a letter to support my application and requested an LMO from HRDC, but it came back as denied, along with my visa application. CIC then sent me a letter saying I had to leave Canada, because my (working holiday) visa had expired during the time all this paperwork was being processed.
So I spoke to CIC and discovered that I was advised to apply for the WRONG visa (the one where there's a shortage of Canadians for certain industries), and that I actually needed to apply for the skilled worker visa. I left Canada within the week and returned to Australia.
So now I want to apply for PR as a skilled worker, but my question is, because I was asked to leave Canada, will I be allowed to do this? I've looked on the CIC site and on google, etc, but I couldn't find any information anywhere. I didn't break any laws or live in Canada illegally, I just unknowingly applied for the wrong visa. :(
I would greatly appreciate ANY help you could provide.