Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement"The thought was always [if] you're on a work permit waiting on your [permanent residency] application status, it's going to get renewed. He is on his fourth work permit since arriving in Canada and it's set to expire in October. At one point, his application for a work permit was rejected so he had to leave Canada to speed up the timeline so he could go back to work faster. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementFerrante said it wasn't clear why his work permit was rejected. When a work permit is refused, McInnes said you have to stop working immediately.