Despite doctors giving him slim chances of survival after falling

Darryl Sequeira arrived in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 2004 to pursue engineering as part of Canada’s international students community. “Far from the heat and hustle of Dubai, I fell in love with the streams and rivers of Canada,” he says. Unfortunately, his joy was cut short after a car accident in 2005.

Despite doctors giving him slim chances of survival after falling into a coma, Sequeira woke up 15 days later as a quadriplegic. He says no one expected him to walk just a few months later. After three months of treatment in Saint John, his father flew him back to Dubai.

But he was “determined to come back.”

“I love nature in Canada. My mind was set on completing the course,” Sequeira told New Canadian Media.

At home, his recovery accelerated and he was able to return to university in 2006 — five years ahead of when his neurologist had advised he should return. “My return was unexpected and unbelievable for many,” he says.

After switching to sociology, Sequeira graduated in 2011 with a Graduate Leader award. However, unable to secure employment in his field of study, he reluctantly returned to Dubai once again.

“Back in Dubai, my body couldn’t cope with the extreme heat. I felt the longing for Canada both at a physical and emotional level,” he says.

Darryl Sequeira

By 2018, Sequeira was back in Ottawa — this time, for a graduate diploma in teaching English as a Second Language, which he was told would help keep him in Canada.

However, after completing the program, his applications for a work permit and another student permit were consecutively rejected in 2019, which technically made him an undocumented international student in Canada.

That same year, he applied for permanent residence on humanitarian grounds. Upon facing rejection, he went to court. After nine months, in February of this year, he got in-principal approval of his permanent residence application.

Though the wait has been long, Sequeira is relieved.

But the same can’t be said for Canada’s thousands of other undocumented international students.

The challenging road to PR

A student becomes undocumented when their non-renewable Post Graduate Work Permit (PGWP), which is granted for eight months to three years, expires and they aren’t able to get into the permanent residence pool.

Humanitarian grounds are the only way undocumented international students can apply for PR, but Canada doubled its rejection of permanent residence applications under humanitarian grounds, from 35 per cent in 2019 to 70 per cent in early 2021.

Sequeira’s lawyer, Jacqueline Bonisteel, said though his case is very unique, her law firm has been successful in securing permanent residence on humanitarian grounds for those who fit the criteria.

For Sequeira, it was the extreme heat of his home country and his medical condition that qualified him to apply under humanitarian grounds.

But just how many students can afford paid legal services?

“A lot of students are stuck in the middle. They not only don’t qualify for Ontario’s free legal aid or for permanent residence on humanitarian grounds, but also can’t afford a private lawyer,” Bonisteel explains.

Bonisteel says the road to permanent residence is challenging for many international students, though she wonders if the students are being misguided by unregulated consultants who often paint the picture of a student permit as an easy gateway to permanent residence.

“Do they know what the road to PR really looks like? It needs to be made clear to the students that it’s not an easy path to PR,” she says

“It’s getting harder than ever to qualify now. You need excellent English skills, and unless you fit a certain profile and you have the required prerequisites, you don’t get a PR

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