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Hello everyone. My story is very long and very sad and I really dont have the time to write it all out now but to cut it short, I am from England and married my Canadian wife in canada in 2003 and applied for PR soon after. Six years later and my wife has just passed away, and I hold CIC partly responsible for the stress they placed upon us over the six years but thats another story. What I really want to know is what happens if I withdraw my application? Will I be allowed to still come to Canada in the future as an ordinary visitor or would they ban me for some period of time, and after the way we have suffered at the hands of the coldest and most incompetent government department i have ever had the misfortune to deal with I think anything is possible. I have emailed CIC with this question but dont expect an answer for sometime. Thanks for any information you can give me.
[05-02-2009,23:52]
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Unhappy Mick |
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Je suis Desolee (in reply to: withdrawing application)
I am sorry to listen to your story but if you were granted PR status you can technically comeback here . By the other hand, canadians in the big cities tend to be the most arrogant , unfriendly, antisocial people. They like to put on a friendly mask when they go out of the country and pretend that all is wonderful in Canada. This is a very depressing and racist country. Canadians like to pretend they are not but in reality they are just politicaly friendly.. They do not mean it!!! If you doubt ask any immigrant into this country. They will tell you the truth but if you like to be on de delusional side of the coin just ask any canadian who was born and rised here and they will tell you what you may want to hear. I must say that Quebecoise are friendlier than anglos( exceting for those who are very nationalistic about Le Nouveau Pays Du Monde).
If you go to smaller town you can meet more genuine people though they can be a bit red-neck too.
[06-02-2009,02:21]
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Dinde |
(in reply to: withdrawing application)
To Dinde
I have a totally opposit experience: found the people in big cities more firendly than those in small towns. My explanation to this that people in big cities are more exposed to immigrants of different races..the big cities show wide diversities in people and , therefore, you will be more "acceptable" in these cities and can "blend" with people there easily..
On the other hand, small towns do not show diversity..small communities who usually do not accept "strangers"...(RED NECKS)...If they treat you in afriednly way, you feel always stranger as you cannot freely socialize with them..
[06-02-2009,02:41]
[**.115.77.146]
Anonymous |
(in reply to: withdrawing application)
To Unhappy Mick:
I´m really sorry about your wife. I´m assuming you haven´t got your PR status yet right? If you withdraw your application, I don´t think CIC can ban you from entering Canada using a tourist visa. If they do, there must be something really wrong and sick about them.
BTW you´ve been waiting for 6 years and still nothing? Then I´m really pessimistic about my application which is only around 2.5 years...
[06-02-2009,05:24]
[***.162.109.236]
Johny |
(in reply to: withdrawing application)
Dinde
Canadians(french or english)critics immigration as well as they auto critic them self, it has nothing to do with racism.
you will find more racism in third world countries than canada.
Immigrant too are sometimes (crying babies) they think because they immigrate legally then everything must be easy to them.
-immigrants have to learn to accepte critics sometimes.
compare to some european countries and most of third world countries.Canadians are not racist at all.
-Dinde , read the news and see what south african did to the zimbabwean immigrant........
Canada gave you all right to go to the court if you think you are victim of any kind of discrimination...
Dinde ,i think that you have to know what s happening around the world befor judjing canadians
good luck
[06-02-2009,07:57]
[**.221.19.45]
Mm |
(in reply to: withdrawing application)
Thannks everyone for your reply´s. First of all I want to say that i´m living in a small town called Nipawin in N.E. Saskatchewan and the people here are the friendliest people I have ever met. When my wife passed away the love and support I received was amazing!! It was comforting to my family back in England to know I was being so well looked after. So I have to say, as far as canadians are concerned, the ones I have met and lived with here for the past 6 years are good people. I met my wife on the internet in 2002, came over in oct to meet her, we bought a house, I sold mine back in England over the phone! I went back for 2 months to sort things out and returned dec 28. We married jan11 03. I applied for PR right after. I have a son back home aged 20 at the time....no intention of coming over here....but was told by a call centre that he HAD to be on my application as he was a "non-accompaniying dependant" This meant he had to get UK police certificate, military police certificate, (he was in the army at the time) and medicals. A lot of time and expense seeing as he wasnt coming here!! We did all we were asked to do, months went past, I would send them whatever they asked for and months later i would get a letter asking for the same thing!!! This happened more then once. In the meantime my son got involved in a road rage incident, went to court, got fined, end of matter. I got called into CIC Saskatoon. They said they had called me in to explain why I had been turned down. This of course was a shock. They said "didnt you get a letter explaining why?" to which i replied no i did not!! That letter never did turn up. They said because my son now had a criminal record he was inadmissable to Canada and therefore so was I. I told them I never wanted him on there in the first place and they said well he didnt have to be!!! I said yes he did...your call centre told me he did....apparently the call centre gave me wrong information that resulted in my being turned down. My wife, (my sponser) appealed. We were told that if we paid $1500.00 the appeal would be over within a month. We decided we had already paid them enough. The appeal took a year but was allowed....we won!!! The Ministers counsel said this saga had been going on long enough and was granting the appeal and my papers should be here soon. Wrong! It just meant they started to process my application all over again, May 2nd 06 to be exact....it says on the website where you can check you status and has never been updated to this day. And so it went on, more medicals for me and my son, more police certificates. We sent everything they asked for. In July 06 they wanted my fingerprints again. I duly sent them off....and waited....and waited. I wrote lots of times asking what the delay was. They finally wrote back and said they had sent my prints off for verification and were waiting to get them back. Oct 08 I get a letter asking for my fingerprints....I couldnt believe it but had them done and sent them off the same day. I can only imagine they had lost the others! After my amazing Canadian wife passed away I was wondering if i wanted to stay here or not as I have 3 sons back home and 4 year old twin grandsons I havent seen yet....I wanted to go and see them but a voice at a CIC call centre said "you are priveleged to be able to apply from within Canada and If you leave you will not be allowed back in and your application will be cancelled" Anyway, on the day of my wifes funeral, Feb3rd, I received another letter saying they wanted me to have yet another medical. That made up my mind about leaving. Because I just know that I would have it done, here nothing for months and then get a letter asking for something else because this is how it has been for 6 years and the stress it put on my wife certainly made her more sick then she would have been. So there you have it, I think I have covered everything. There was nothing complicated about my case, I had nothing to hide, no criminal record, I was healthy and able to work, i just wanted to live in this beautiful country with my beautiful wife.
Thanks for listening!
[06-02-2009,09:49]
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Unhappy Mick |
(in reply to: withdrawing application)
It is sad story indeed !!! 6 years to process the PR ???? I would definitly write to whom ever and explin the situation . At least they should know how their people work and how many people suffer because of their system.
Beautiful country WITHOUT beloved is worth nothing !!!
[06-02-2009,19:02]
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Anonymous |
(in reply to: withdrawing application)
Go Dinde Go
Evrything you saying is truth
[06-02-2009,19:23]
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stavrimacoku |
(in reply to: withdrawing application)
you are right Anonymous....without my wife here I have no reason to be here as our house and yard was everything to us but only as a couple...now it means nothing to me. I have 6 years of wonderful memories though, even CIC cant take those away. I will be writing to the Minister for Immigration eventually. Maybe he can make a difference somewhere?? I dont think anyone would be suprised to hear I have little confidence anything will improve though. The Doctor that has always done my medicals told me once that people have told him they have also cancelled their application because of the time involved, and gone to other countries. With the winters we have here they should be doing everything they can to encourage people to come here, not just assume that Canada is the only country anyone wants to go to!!
[06-02-2009,20:31]
[**.11.65.62]
Unhappy Mick |
(in reply to: withdrawing application)
Mick,
Canada is a very difficult immigration process. It requires extreme patience and desire, which I suspect is intentional by CIC to weed out all applicants except those most fiercely determined. But your experience is beyond the pale and quite unjust. I too would consider throwing in the towel.
I suspect your case ran into ever-present but random bureaucartic snafus that happened to converge with your file. I think if you stuck it out, you´d still make it, since the stage where they ask for medicals is just shy of PR visa issuance. But then the emotional motivation would have to still be there, which sounds like it may no longer be.
My thoughts are that the past is best left to the past. If Canada still intrigues you as a place to live, with its beauty, friendly people, sense of community, and generous social systems, then continue. There are many new people to meet, experiences to be had, and opportunies to encounter in this amazing country. Unless you try, you´ll never know, and this opportunity will have passed.
[06-02-2009,20:57]
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Richard |
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