Criminality is a common ground for inadmissibility to Canada. A simple interpretation of “inadmissible” means that you are not allowed to enter Canada. I had a case in 2019 where the subject Mr. X’s visa application was refused for marijuana/cannabis issue for the first time and retained me for the second attempt, and got approved….
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Removal from Canada (International Student)
Foreign nationals such as international students and work permit holders must comply with the terms and conditions under IRPA/IRPR to continue to stay in Canada. If you are found by IRCC or CBSA to be incompliant with these conditions, you may receive a document called “removal order” (there are three types of them) and face…
Common-Law Relationship Declaration
For most applicants from countries where the legal systems are not based on common law, the common-law relationships are as much mysterious and difficult to understand for some, and convenient and beneficial for the other. For some, they face losing their permanent residency status for not declaring it in certain cases. For the other, it…
Removal Order Appeal (Ingenuine Job Offer)
The appellant Mr. Z is a young man in his late 20s. He came to Canada in 2001 as an international student and graduated from university in 2008. He utilized his experience from mid 2008 to mid 2009 to apply for immigration under the Canadian Experience Class and became a permanent resident of Canada in…
Retrospectivity of Misrepresentation
This was an admissibility hearing held in late 2017 for misrepresentation. Simply put, the if you get or maintain your permanent residency status by making false representation before Canadian government, you could be deprived of your status, and banned from entering Canada for another five years, pursuant to IRPA section 40: 40 (1) A permanent…
Residency Obligation Appeal
The appellant got her Canadian permanent residency in 2011, Russian citizen, around sixty years old lady. While applying for the travel document at the Canadian Embassy in Russia in 2017, she was found by the visa officer that she had lived in Canada for only around 300 days in the 5-year period from 2012-2017, and was deprived of her permanent resident status…
Admissibility Hearing for Organized Crime
Mr. B who immigrated to Canada in 1998 was recently deemed inadmissible to Canada by Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) under section 36(1)(b), section 36(1)(b), and section 37(1)(a) of Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) (section 36 refers to serious criminality and criminality; section 37 refers to organized crime). In 2015, The American police…
Admissibility Hearing for Misrepresentation
The appellant, Mr. Zhang, had fabricated his travel documents in his Permanent residence card renewal application in 2010. In 2016, CBSA notice his case involved in the massive immigration fraud of Wang Xun during the investigation. This should have been a fairly simple and ordinary case. Yet the Supreme Court of Canada just concluded an immigration appeal…