Can I still claim resident status? - News - Jamaica Gleaner - Tuesday | September 10, 2013 Dear Ms Powell, In 2007, I was sponsored by my father to go to Canada. I completed high school and started university in 2011 when my mother got very ill with cancer. I am her only child and so I returned to Jamaica to help her. She died last month and I now want to return to Canada to continue my studies. I had a part-time job while I was in school and my employer said I could get back my job. My father and stepmother said that it didn't make sense for me to try to return and that immigration would turn me back at the airport as I had stayed too long. Is that true? I had no choice but to return to take care of my mother at the time. What can I do to ensure that I can return? Please answer quickly as I'm very worried. Thank you. - K.L. Dear K.L., My condolences to you and your family for the loss of your mother. It appears from your letter that you were a landed immigrant in Cana...
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