CIC, Grant me an Approval in Principal so I can find a job to continue to support myself
When my Work Permit expired in February 2015, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) stripped me of all civil rights. Yes, I am permitted neither to work nor to earn unemployment benefits. I am prohibited from studying and not allowed to drive. I am even deprived of accessing healthcare. CIC punishes me for being a great immigrant.
Who Am I?
I have been in Canada for more than EIGHT years. During this time, I have established myself successfully in Alberta. My journey began in 2007 when I started working in a fast food restaurant. Two years after hard working and money saving, I decided to attend the college to pursue post-secondary education. By the end of 2011, I graduated with a Diploma in Business Administration. My efforts to upgrade my education served me well. I was able to start a new career which allowed me to flourish and to buy my first home. The success I achieved in Canada was not my own. Thanks to my community which offered me tremendous support to be successful. In return, I committed to volunteer hundreds of hours in municipal governments and charitable organizations but I am proud the most for being a regular blood donor for the Canadian Blood Services.
What Goes Wrong?
In July 2014, I hired an immigration attorney to help me with my application for Permanent Resident in Canada. In clear negligence, my lawyer failed to submit my application which barred me from extending my Work Permit. To rectify this situation, a new lawyer submitted an application based on Humanitarian and Compassionate grounds (H&C) while I am following up with the Law Society of Alberta against its negligent member. CIC’s website shows they received my application on June 9, 2015. But, as a result of extremely slow processing, my situation is doomed to spiral out of control. Following the work permit expiration, I was coerced to leave a job I had for three successive years. Yet, Service Canada forfeited my right for unemployment insurance despite paying my fair share of taxes since June 2007. To complicate matters, The Government of Alberta confiscated my ID/Driver License and ceased my healthcare coverage. I provided them with a land title to prove I own a home thus, I am a resident of Alberta; they weren’t convinced, however.
CIC careless reaction
Ignoring the hardship facing some immigrants epitomize an intense anti-immigrant sentiment by CIC. To promote them to speed the process, I attempted multiple times to contact CIC including its minister Chris Alexander, and the Honorable Jason Kenney. In an email to the ministers, I explained that delayed First Stage Assessment, makes it increasingly difficult to make my mortgage payments and to meet other financial commitments. Further, my parents are in dire financial need due to the ongoing civil war in Syria but I am unable to lend them support. In addition, my credit has greatly diminished which impede my ability to support myself. In sum, CIC could not care less about my sufferings, and my pleas for help fell on deaf ears.
What should be done?
Without you I am voiceless. Please sign my petition to ask the minister of Citizenship & Immigration in the government of the prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau to grant me an Approval in Principal so I can find a job to continue to support myself and to put food on the table. Thank you. I will count on you to help me return my life to normal before Christmas.
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The CIC, Grant me an Approval in Principal so I can find a job to continue to support myself petition to Citizenship and Immigration Canada was written by Adam Chawesh and is in the category Government at GoPetition.