Dear Miss Powell, I came to Canada with my mother on a visitor’s visa in 2008 to help my aunt who was sick and needed a helper. The summer after I finished high school in Jamaica my mother took me to Canada. I was 16 at the time. My mother and I now live with my aunt. I passed seven subjects in Jamaica and wanted to go to college/university here, but my aunt and mother are worried that the immigration authorities would send me home if they found me. I have been helping my aunt and some of her friends with housework just to get some pocket money and to have something to do. I would really love to get my documents so that I can go to school and stop hiding. I’m scared go anywhere and to talk to anyone apart from family friends as I don’t want to be sent back to Jamaica. My aunt says if I’m not careful anyone can call the police who can lock me up and then deport me. I don’t have anyone in Jamaica to help me so I wouldn’t know what to do th...
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