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Mandamus to Compel Action on Your Citizenship File
My client was facing enforcement action by CBSA. It was a years long, seemingly interminable investigation as to her first marriage. After securing a response to an Access to Information Request (which...
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Blog Posting - Parental Sponsorship Reopens January 4, 2016
The Family Class Sponsorship of Parents and Grandparents will re-open as of January 4, 2016. Based on our experience if you wish to sponsor under this category, applications should be prepared and...
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A half truth is a whole lie. Misrepresentation Explained.
A great deal of our practice deals with allegations by CIC of misrepresentation committed by those that seek to enter, remain or bring others to Canada. As with most things in life, prevention is the...
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The Humanitarian and Compassionate Application and the Supreme Court decision...
Section 25 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act of Canada allows an officer to exempt an applicant from almost every requirement imposed on applicants for permanent residence. This exemption...
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Article 6
Great, eloquent statement on state protection by Justice Shore in MCI v. Baranyi 2015 FC 221: [2] In addition, the political and socio-economical state of affairs of any country is complex and...
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Immigration Changes to Watch for in 2016
Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future. - Yoda Predictions are hard. That doesn't seem to stop most from trying their hand at it, particularly at this time of the year. That being said, an...
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Blog Posting - Parental Sponsorship Class
The Family Class Sponsorship of Parents and Grandparents will is now open. The initial 5000 applications that were part of the old quota have already been received by the Case Processing Centre....
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Cultural Sensitivity and the Birth of a Child in Spousal Sponsorship Appeals
The Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) of the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) handles appeals of refused spousal sponsorships made outside Canada. In the words of Justice Barnes, The Board's task...
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Blog Posting - PRRA Notifications Calgary
In the latter stages of 2015 and in the early part of January 2016, many of our clients have been contacted by the Canada Border Services Agency in Calgary with Pre Removal Risk Assessment (PRRA)...
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What's in a name? A Rose by any Other Name May Not Smell as Sweet.
What's in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet; Romeo and Juliet Act II, Scene II Two economics professors found that women lawyers with traditionally masculine names...
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The Law Remains a Pale, Male and Stale Profession or We're Doing Diversity Wrong
A lot of soul searching, and a lot of ink has been spilled on the issue of diversity in the legal profession. Here's a listing of all the equity and diversity initiatives by the Law Society of...
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Statement on the recent Federal Court decision concerning Imam Abdi Hersy
The Federal Court of Canada, for the second time, has set aside a decision by the Refugee Protection Division revoking Mr. Hersy's status as a protected person. The CBSA has been attempting by way of...
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The Case for and Against Immigration
Is immigration good or bad? On one side, Grubel (et al) argue that the benefits of immigration are dwarfed by the financial costs. ...the welfare state, which is characterized by progressive income...
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Blog Posting - Temporary Foreign Worker Program Review Likely
As indicated in the linked article, it appears the new Liberal Government will be undertaking another review of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program:...
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Hitting the Reset Button on the Harper Decade
The Liberal Government continues to hit the reset button on the Harper DecadeTM. Mohamad Hashem of Al Jazeera has written about the "mixed reaction" to the announcement by Minister McCallum to turn...
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Blog Posting - Government to Remove Conditional Permanent Residence...
In following through on a campaign promise, the Liberal Government is preparing to take steps to remove the requirement that sponsored spouses live with their sponsors in a genuine relationship for at...
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