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Old Mar 26th 2015 | 1:43 pm
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Default More super visa confusion !!!

We arrived in Canada a month ago on the grandparent super visa.The immigration official stamped our passports for two years,and simply signed them,and wrote some code down.
Today,we tried to get our Canadian drivers licences,but were refused as our passports did not contain a "shiny sticker"!!!.
Apparently the immigration official should have put some sort of information on our passports concerning the super visa!!!!.
Although we are allowed to drive on our UK licences for a year,it doesn't solve the long term problems.
We are so confused about what's happening,and how on earth can we now get these "shiny stickers " put into our passports so we can get our Canadian driving licences!.
Help please!.
 
Old Mar 26th 2015 | 9:27 pm
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Default Re: More super visa confusion !!!

Shiny stickers or probably passport counterfoil visas are normally issued by CIC for people coming from countries who require a visa to enter Canada and you send your passport to CIC.
The super visa that CIC introduced doesn't require a shiny sticker if you are from a non visa requiring country such as the UK.
What CBSA should have done when you arrived is to have issued you a Visitor Record (IMM 1442) and placed it in your passport and notated Super Visa in the comments section. It appears lots of CBSA officers across the country are not doing this as they will tell you nobody told us to do this.
Some of us who have been around for a few years will simply say well didn't CIC used to have and probably still have a policy of persons wishing to stay more than 6 months must receive written authorization. Hence the Visitor Record.
If you are close to a Port of Entry I suggest you go back and ask to speak to a Supervisor and ask them if one can be issued as it should have been done when you first entered the country. take any paperwork you have such as the letter of introduction you should have got from CIC and your medical coverage.
 
Old Mar 26th 2015 | 11:59 pm
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Default Re: More super visa confusion !!!

What FL said. Take read through the following thread...post #6 onwards.

http://britishexpats.com/forum/immig.../#post11600201
 

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