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How can i get my passport early?

Canadian Consulate has my passport and I no longer want the visa, how can I get them back?

  • I am from Costa Rica, am in Seattle legally with a tourist and I applied for a Canadian visa on March 26. Average processing time for visa is 30 days, it's been 42 days and I know nothing about my status. At this point, I no longer want the visa (the training I was going to carry in Toronto got cancelled b/c of this). I've contacted the Seattle consulate by e-mail (the only way you can contact them) and got an auto-reply that they will get back at me in 28 days or later. I need to travel to Europe on May 17th and cannot do so w/o my passport. Is there anything I can do? I'm pretty sure that if I show up in their office and request the passport, I will most likely be told to leave their premises. They have my I-94 and my passport - this has been the worst visa experience I've ever had in my life.

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    I would be willing to bet Canada has your visa and passport because you violated the TERMS of your travel visa. Besides, you need a visa to enter Canada from US. Can't you read the terms and conditions of your travel visa or are you a child>? You cannot use a travel visa to look for a job or work. Your intentions are not good. You are trying to cheat the system. You might be in trouble. Since you are a guest in a foreign country, you should not be stupid and break rules. @OP I have been to Japan, India, Malaysia, and will be going to Chile in the fall. When I go to these countries, I apply for a business visa. You cannot show up in a country without obtaining the visa from HOME first. So what made you think you could go to the US on a tourist visa, then apply for a completely different visa to work in Canada from the USA? Pretty stupid to presume you can alter your visa while en route to the next country not included on your original visa issued from home. Silly me, I was under the impression that nobody can change the conditions of a visa after you leave home just because you want to. Maybe visa restrictions do not apply to you.

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Maybe they find it just as odd as I do that a "supposed" tourist needed a carry on visa once they where in another country for "training" You are here as a tourist......plain and simple.........

candy g

Here's your problem.... you should never have attempted to apply for a visa to Canada while in the USA as a tourist. If this is legit travel it should have been done in Costa Rica. Go to the consulate personally and get your passport back.

Yak Rider

I have traveled all over the continent and it is my understanding that you must always ask for Passports or Visas from YOUR country of origin. There was a man missing in the country of Peru that traveled to Costa Rica but never arrived. The family asked me to please go and see if I could find out anything about him here in Costa Rica. I was told the only people that can help you are the country of his origin, Peru. If you have documents someplace where they should not be your own country consulate needs to advise you as to how to get them back. Contact them here ! I don't know why they would send you away unless you have done something wrong. Its your passport and you no longer want the visa. I don't know about applying for visas when you are elsewhere for other countries. If your passport says Costa Rica, the Costa Rica consulate will tell you what do to or help you do it. This has been my experience anyway.

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