Misrepresentation and a way out...

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Subject: Misrepresentation and a way out...
  Hi,

I need to clear something up and would appreciate your guys´ help. I´m having a hard time finding any precise information about this and I sort of need to prove to somebody I´m right. I mean, she is a good friend and I want what´s best for her and if this works I don´t care. I just wouldn´t want anything to happen to her that she would regret.. It´s got to do with misrepresentation and before you get all angry please consider that even though it is wrong, after all it is fraud, people aren´t perfect. No one is, and when it comes to trying to make a better live for oneself some people will step outside of their code of ethics if somehow, at that moment they can justify to themselves the risk involved...

She applied for a PR through Skilled Worker Class in, I think, 2005. She claimed NOC work experience in 2002. The work experience was fraudulent. By the time she got to her interview, they told her they had 2 concerns: the validity of her work experience (she had submitted employment contract, tax info etc - all fraudulent) as well as (if it is in fact real) that there was enough work experience for it to be considered an equivalent of 1 year full time work under the Canadian standards. Basically, she was told to go find out how many hours she worked while they verify her documentation. She withdrew her application after the interview stating there were in fact not enough hours to make it a full-time 1 year and due to fear of a "rejection" being on her file she would reapply at a later time when she has gained enough work experience.

When I asked her why she ever applied without real work experience, apart from whatever reasons she had to need to apply, she said she somehow thought that the CIC would never verify the documents. They would either believe her or they wouldn´t. And if they didn´t, they would reject her application. Right now it seems beyond foolish.. but what was done was done.

Now, after, I believe, 2 years or so she wanted to reapply thinking that she should be fine as long as she downplays the fraudulent work experience as part-time (since she would have to put it on her 10-year history to be consistent). In the mean time she´s accumulated 2 years of real applicable work experience in Canada. In fact she could apply under the Canada Experience Class. But then, she really doesn´t want to have to "be consistent" because it´s continuing a lie. So she thought by applying in 2012 her fraudulent work experience will be outside of the 10-year mark and will not need to be claimed. Therefore if she gets her immigration she will have gotten it without any fraud. (I also heard somewhere that every application is considered on its own merits. What does that really mean?)

I know some of you will say she should just confess, but like I said, she´s a good friend and who knows what the punishment will be. I mean, it´s one thing if it´s a two-year inadmissibility, but worse?.. That would be devastating. Maybe for some that wouldn´t even matter. I get a sense here from some people that they are just ready to immigrate to any country if Canada doesn´t work out. It´s like shooting in the dark. I know that in this case it is not so. She has been in Canada for 7 years and this is her home in every sense, and that error of judgment she made 3 years ago may have ruined her chances to ever materialize her dream.

Anyway, I´ll leave it for you to judge. I´m here to seek some guidance because I want to help a friend. So if there is anything I don´t know or couldn´t find through my research, I´d appreciate if you pointed me in that direction.

Thanks in advance guys.

Paul


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