Canada Ping!
Posted on 06/24/2015 10:19:42 AM PDT by dennisw
A British tourist has been booted out of Canada after he helped his girlfriend decorate her flat.
Tom Rolfe was just being helpful, but immigration officials in the country felt that he was ‘doing a Canadian out of a job’, after they found photographs of him helping girlfriend Sam Edwards to fill in cracks in the walls of her flat.
Tom, 24, from Abergavenny, said: ‘It is ridiculous, I was just helping Sam to tidy up her flat before she sold it so we could get a place together. I was treated like a criminal and told I have eight days to get out of the country – it has wrecked our plans.’
And Tom’s helpful nature doesn’t end there either – he had planned to open a dog rescue centre in his girlfriend’s home city of Edmonton, Alberta.
He applied for a resident’s permit in order to do so, and had to leave Canada in order to get his new passport stamped at immigration control.
But when the couple returned, they were locked in separate rooms for three hours while immigration officials searched their belongings and car.
‘They found photos on my camera of me helping Sam fill cracks in her walls’, Tom said.
‘They said that by doing that I was denying a Canadian person a job. I was completely staggered when they said I had eight days to get out of the country.’
Yesterday, Tom was preparing to return to the UK, and while his girlfriend will follow in a few months with their dogs, he has no immediate plans to return to Canada.
‘I’m done with Canada now. I thought they were part of the Commonwealth so I’m surprised to be treated like this’, he said.
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One could argue that this particular case goes a bit too far.But on the general subject of a nation protecting its borders as well as her native workforce I have no problem with that at all.
If only we protected ours *half* as well.Eject all the illegal Mexicans and the unemployment rate of our minority citizens *plummets* and their wages rise noticeably...if not dramatically.
I was denied entry into Canada once because of a misunderstanding regarding work. It all comes down to “who is the customer?”. If you’re traveling TO a customer in Canada you’d better have the correct paperwork/visa’s/etc., otherwise you’ll be denied entry. If you’re travel AS the customer to a vendor in Canada then you’re OK. It all comes down to the question of “can a Canadian do the job?”.
In my case my employer had told me to “be at company xyz in Toronto tomorrow morning!”. They wanted me to help with some software development, nobody informed me WE were the customer - usually it is the other way around (we’re the contractor). So I initially told the border people I was going to a customer and got turned away (after they spent about 1/2 hour typing everything into a computer). I was able to get this sorted once I understood the problem.
Now, every time I go, I have a hard time, they require a lengthy discussion. It begins with “have you ever been turned away?”, when they already know the answer. I’m now a manager of several people in Ottawa. I’ve found that the story “going for training and conferences” is often the best, if I have to explain I’m their boss there’s a good chance they won’t let me in. It doesn’t matter that they work for a USA based company.
Canada Ping!
“You can apply for permanent residents status within Canada, you do not have to leave the country. “
If what you say is correct, then Canada is unique among countries. Normally you have to leave a country for a certain number of days in order to change your visa status. You can’t do it within the country. I think even visa renewals require leaving a country for a short time period at the end of the visa period and then re-entering using the renewed visa. In addition, his then current tourist visa may have been running out, so he would have had to leave anyway if he didn’t plan ahead for a work visa.
He had to leave the country to get a newer stamp on his passport. My sister’s hubby had to do the same thing. He lived at her place for 360 days, then they had to go to the states and return with the new stamp on his passport so he could apply for his permanent resident’s card.
It’s common.
Leftists in America want to do something very similar to us (and probably would if they get our guns :).
It’s called “imputed income”. They want to tax it.
Fix your own toilet? Well, that’s “imputed income” of the $80 plumber’s trip charge and $45 for the 20 minutes it took you to replace that flapper.
I say we outsource ICE to the Canadian Immigration authorities. Keeping illegals out of the country is clearly a job Americans don’t want to do.
I have a family member applying for permanent residence status within Canada.
I have a family member applying for permanent residence status within Canada.
If he had to leave because he had been here six months, and turned around at the border after getting his passport stamped in the US, immigration might have smelled a rat.
And, for the Americans complaining about Canada’s border guards’ (over?)zealous enforcement of our immigration labour laws, I can tell you that the U.S. C.B.P. is no less of a pain in the ass towards Canadians.
Only Mexicans (and other central Americans, apparently) are allowed to live and work in the US illegally with little consequence. Canadians crossing the border legally on business trips are viewed with great suspicion.
they just wanted the bugger out of the country....and out he went..along with his dogs and nutball girlfriend
I did it from within Canada. There are a couple of different ways of doing it from within, and depending on one’s circumstances, it may make more sense to apply from outside.
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