A worker's permit extension was refused and her status expired; a restoration-of-status plus extension application was pending when a family emergency required urgent travel to India. The spouse asked whether she could leave, receive the new work permit by post abroad, apply for a TRV, and return.
The critical correction — from IRCC itself: the poster later called IRCC and added an edit warning readers:
the applicant should NOT leave Canada while a restoration of status application is in process. Leaving abandons the restoration — and the poster explicitly warned others not to follow the comment-thread advice below.
What the comments had suggested (and why it's risky):
- Members proposed the workaround: travel, have the newly issued work permit mailed to India, apply for a TRV from there using the new permit, and fly back. Several said friends had obtained TRVs from India this way.
- That plan only works if the permit is approved and issued before or during the trip. While restoration is still pending, the applicant has no status to return to — leaving Canada undermines the entire application.
- One member did correctly condition the advice: 'provided she gets a new WP and her TRV is valid.' The safe sequencing members converged on: wait for the approval first, and only then consider travel plus a TRV application from abroad.
The durable lesson: crowd-sourced workarounds can contradict IRCC's actual rules — when status is at stake, confirm directly with IRCC before booking travel.