Went For Work A Permit At Border – 10 Years Visa Cancelled

[Inderpreet]

My sister-in-law (sister of wife) and her husband have 10 years multiple entry visa for Canada. They came to visit my family and someone suggested to try work permit for a truck driver at a Canadian border. I drove to Niagara Falls border because brother-in-law has been a truck driver in Dubai for 10 years. The officer not only refused work permit but cancelled his 10 years multiple visitor visa. Why it was done that way?

[Rajpal (Admin)]

Instead of going to border, if your brother-in-law may have applied while working in Dubai or if he may have filed online application even after coming to Canada, the outcome would have been different. The CBSA officers use their discretion at the border. If a person applies online, an officer has more time to look at the application and make decision as compared to an officer at the border who will only observe a few documents. Your brother-in-law might have provided contradictory information to the officer at the border that he did not believe him and his purpose of visit. Due to big contradictions on his application for temporary residence that he filed outside before coming to Canada and in person responses at the border, the CBSA officer cancelled his 10 years multiple entry visa.

Further, you can try for a study permit for your sister-in-law. If she receives a study permit, then brother-in-law could be her dependant spouse for future applications. Your brother-in-law is lucky that he is not given exclusion order otherwise he could have become inadmissible for one year.