Work Permit Expires before PR Status Approved -- Do I need to renew?

[ryscher]

Hi, I am in Canada on a post-grad work permit. It expires Nov 1, 2013. Unfortunately, do to some confusion, I did not submit a FBI clearance and now they have requested one along with a copy of my passport. The deadline they gave me was Nov 16, 2013. If it takes as long as it supposedly does for the FBI to send a clearance, my work permit will expire before I get my PR status. Will I have to apply for a new work permit even I will probably get my PR status within a month or two of my permit expiring?

 

[Leon]

If you want to continue working after your permit expires, you will need to renew your permit or since you can't extend a PG work permit, apply for a bridging permit if you qualify.

 

[ryscher]

So I wouldn't be able to keep working under 'implied status' since I have an application in process for PR and am awaiting a decision on that?

I'd rather not pay another $125 for a work permit that I will probably only have for about 4-6 weeks before I flagpole.

 

[ryscher]

According to this CIC page, I would only be eligible for a bridge permit if I had applied for PR under an economic class. But I've applied for PR through the family sponsorship class. Is there a bridge permit for that?

 

[Leon]

You do not automatially get any kind of implied status just for applying for PR. If you applied for PR under spousal sponsorship inland and applied for an open work permit at the same time, you would have implied status.

If you applied under spousal sponsorship inland and did not apply for a work permit at the same time but you have your first stage approval already, you can apply for the open work permit now.

If you applied under other family sponsorship or spousal outland, you are not eligible for an open work permit along with that.

If that is the case, you could ask your employer to apply for an LMO for you so you can apply for a work permit based on that before your current work permit expires. If you do that, you would have implied status as long as you can apply for the new work permit before yours expires. Even if the employer applies for the LMO and hasn't gotten it yet, you can apply for concurrent processing once your work permit is 2 weeks away from expiring.

If the employer will not apply for an LMO for you or can't get one, you would have to stop working when your work permit expires. After your work permit expires, you would be out of status and would have a 3 month grace period to either restore your status or leave. If your PR hasn't come through by then, you would have to either apply to restore your status to visitor or leave Canada.

 

[Kukulla]

hi leon i just happen to come across to this thread i know its a bit old now, but i kinda have the same situation right now with my husband.

He has a post grad open work permit that will expire next month, and we just applied for his sponsorship im sponsoring him inland and we submitted it on march of this year 2014 but we did not put an application to renew his owp with the PR application.
Do we still have to apply for his owp renewal? or we just wait for the first stage approval and let him stay here without any status? im just worried the CBSA might put him on removal pls help

 

[PMM]

Hi

hi leon i just happen to come across to this thread i know its a bit old now, but i kinda have the same situation right now with my husband.

He has a post grad open work permit that will expire next month, and we just applied for his sponsorship im sponsoring him inland and we submitted it on march of this year 2014 but we did not put an application to renew his owp with the PR application.
Do we still have to apply for his owp renewal? or we just wait for the first stage approval and let him stay here without any status? im just worried the CBSA might put him on removal pls help

He should apply for an extension as a visitor before his PGWP expires.