Old Visa got cancelled without prejudice

[overAmped]

I recently applied to extend my study permit and visitor visa. Both of them got approved and i just got back my passport with the new visitor visa sticker.
However, one unusual thing is that my old visitor visa, which is still valid until Aug 2019 has a "cancelled without prejudice" stamp on it. I am not sure if it is a normal operation for renewing visa. But when I did the exact same application for extending study permit and visitor visa back in 2018, the older visa doesn't have that stamp.

Should I take some action in response to that, or it is just a normal thing to cancel the old visa when the new one is approved?

 

[k.h.p.]

This is a normal thing. The stamp may be new, but the old visa was also cancelled without prejudice.

Without prejudice just means that the cancellation of the visa will have no effect on future applications.

 

[selvakk]

I recently applied to extend my study permit and visitor visa. Both of them got approved and i just got back my passport with the new visitor visa sticker.
However, one unusual thing is that my old visitor visa, which is still valid until Aug 2019 has a "cancelled without prejudice" stamp on it. I am not sure if it is a normal operation for renewing visa. But when I did the exact same application for extending study permit and visitor visa back in 2018, the older visa doesn't have that stamp.

Should I take some action in response to that, or it is just a normal thing to cancel the old visa when the new one is approved?

You see a similar thing in passports. I renewed
my passport while my current one was still valid. however once the process for reapplying is done you have your passport stamped with cancelled, even if it would still be valid.

The only difference is here the have used the words without prejudice. You can have two valid visas, nor can you have two valid passports.

 

[k.h.p.]

You can have two valid passports in many cases, just for very specific reasons. But yes, you're right.

 

[selvakk]

You can have two valid passports in many cases, just for very specific reasons. But yes, you're right.

If you are talking about dual citizenship then yes, being from a country that doesn't allow that, it is not the first thing that comes to mind.

When it comes to valid visas in expired or canceled passports, the physical passport is not valid, but the visa on it still is. I have has cases like that since UAE residence visas were issued every 3 years and for Indian citizens, if you are under the age of 15 then you are only issued passport valid for 5 years. So every 6th year I had to staple two passports together.

Generally only one valid passport per country but there are exceptions.

 

[k.h.p.]

If you are talking about dual citizenship then yes, being from a country that doesn't allow that, it is not the first thing that comes to mind.

When it comes to valid visas in expired or canceled passports, the physical passport is not valid, but the visa on it still is. I have has cases like that since UAE residence visas were issued every 3 years and for Indian citizens, if you are under the age of 15 then you are only issued passport valid for 5 years. So every 6th year I had to staple two passports together.

Generally only one valid passport per country but there are exceptions.

Canadians can have multiple passports, for example, if they can demonstrate that one will be, by necessity, inaccessible to them for a long period of time (ie, extended visa processing at an embassy that will keep it for months), or if they have a diplomatic and a civilian passport. Other countries do the same thing. IRCC will typically not allow you to have both physically at the same time.

You are correct in terms of valid visas in expired passports, and continued validity of a visa in an expired passport.