Our Recent Immigration Success Stories

This Week’s Success Story: Visitor Visa Granted After Federal Court Challenge

A client approached our office after receiving multiple visitor visa refusals for Canada. The latest visitor visa refusal was the most frustrating, as the application appeared to be refused despite substantial evidence provided by the client in the application to address the concerns noted in the previous visa refusal letters.

We assisted our client in challenging the latest visa refusal to the Federal Court. We conducted legal research, thoroughly reviewed immigration records, and carefully drafted our legal arguments to explain that the Officer had breached procedural fairness in not allowing our client an opportunity to address credibility concerns before refusing the application and failed to consider important evidence resulting in an overall unreasonable decision. Thankfully, IRCC agreed to re-open the latest visitor visa application without a fight.

Our client returned to our office for assistance in preparing additional submissions and updated information after receiving a letter from IRCC confirming the application would be re-opened. We recently received a letter requesting the client to provide their passport to IRCC in order to finalize the issuance of the visitor visa.

This Week’s Success Story: Successful PR Approval After Overcoming 5-Year Ban for Misrepresentation Finding!

We are pleased to report that a client recently received permanent residence after many years of challenging a refusal first before the Court and then with a Canadian Embassy. Our client filed an application independently for permanent residence over 6 years ago that was refused for misrepresentation. A finding of misrepresentation by Canada Immigration results in not just a refusal, but also a ban from Canada from applying for permanent residence for a period of five years. This is important as waiting the five years could serve to disqualify a client from eligibility in an immigrant category in the future. And, even after the expiry of the five years if a client is still eligible, although the inadmissibility expires, that finding may still be considered by Canada Immigration in assessing credibility on future application.

In this particular case, the officer did not believe the client’s employment experience based on a verification check with employees who were not in management positions or not well positioned to speak to the client’s work experience. The immigration officers did not contact the individuals who actually wrote the employment references, nor did they reach out to administrators or a human resources department employee who would have been best equipped to verify the client’s employment. So, the refusal was challenged to the Federal Court and a settlement was reached, setting aside the refusal and misrepresentation decision. Following this, the application was sent back to the Embassy for reconsideration. Then, following receipt of the information received during the Court process of the officer’s specific concerns, updated and detailed submissions were made with further evidence to support the validity of the employment experience. After some time advocating the client achieved success and is now excited to start a new life here in Canada.

This Week’s Success Story: Securing Permanent Residence for Parents Through Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds

After the stalled parental sponsorship program had remained closed for years and then re-opened in 2019 without invitation, we pursued permanent residence through a Humanitarian and Compassionate application. The application was based on the family’s circumstances, the best interests of grandchildren, as well as establishment, family reunification and negative conditions in the home country. The process was lengthy, although we recently received the great news that our client’s H&C application for permanent residence was granted.

This Week’s Success Story: PR Approval After Procedural Fairness Letter

A client retained our office after receiving a Procedural Fairness Letter (PFL) outlining concerns about their immigration history in another country in which they had previously studied and worked – the client had a visa in this country cancelled. The client received this letter in relation to their Permanent Residence application to Canada. The client had declared the visa cancellation on the application, but was understandably concerned that this issue might affect their eligibility for Permanent Residence.

After extensive legal research, our office carefully drafted an Affidavit on behalf of our client, explaining in further detail the circumstances leading to the visa cancellation, to support our written submissions in response to the PFL. We argued that the client’s immigration history did not render them inadmissible to Canada. After submitting our response, IRCC followed up on two subsequent matters before issuing the PR approval for our client! Thankfully, our hard work, as well as our client’s, paid off!