Our Recent Immigration Success Stories

This Week’s Success Story: Fighting Removal Order Issued 10 Years Ago Leads to Permanent Residency Success!

We were most recently informed that an application for permanent residence was successful that we came on as counsel over 10 years ago. Our representation began with stepping in to prevent removal from Canada, and advocating in connection with travel documents and compliance with Citizenship and Immigration Canada (as it was then) and the Canada Border Services Agency, and once successful to secure temporary status to allow the individual to remain in Canada and able to work and support the family in Canada, and then remove prior inadmissibility by securing a Pardon (at the time), and ultimately permanent residence where our client can remain in Canada with his family. A long journey with success at each step of the way was an incredible experience and truly rewarding.  Now they can call Canada home and we can call the case a success. 

This Week’s Success Story: Spousal Sponsorship – Elderly Couple Reunited!

Our clients found each other later in life. She thought that she would never marry. He thought he would never marry again. But love worked its mysterious magic, and they found them husband and wife and very much in love. They lived abroad for many years together in the wife’s country. But the Canadian husband grew ill, and only treatment in Canada could keep him alive. Sadly, the Canadian government did not think a marriage made sense so late in life, and rejected the wife’s application to join her husband. The clients came to us for help with their appeal. Thanks to our expert legal advice, the couple was able to show the government why they had chosen one another and prove their words were true. Now the sweet couple can enjoy their twilight years together.

This Week’s Success Story: Study Permit Approval for Mature Student!

A client retained our office after receiving a letter of acceptance from a Designated Learning Institution (“DLI”) to study at a college in Canada. We carefully crafted our submissions as the client was a mature student who had already completed an advanced degree abroad. In addition, the client’s country of origin was one known for ongoing conflict, which might have raised concerns about the client’s likelihood of leaving Canada at the end of the authorized period of stay. We explained, while referring to ample case law to support our position, that it cannot be assumed that an individual whose country of origin is one with ongoing conflict that the individual will overstay as a result, especially if they can demonstrate strong ties to other countries. We also assisted the client in preparing a detailed study plan to explain her decision to study in Canada, and how the proposed program of study would assist in achieving long-term career goals. Thankfully our client’s study permit application was approved!

This Week’s Success Story: Another Federal Court Success!

A client came to our office after receiving a refusal on an application for criminal rehabilitation, which resulted in the refusal of her application for Permanent Residence under the Spousal In-Canada class. The client had one conviction overseas, completed the associated sentence, and despite ample evidence of rehabilitation, the application for criminal rehabilitation was refused. Because of this, she was still considered to be criminally inadmissible and thus her application for Permanent Residence was refused. What the client was unaware of was that her subsequently submitted application for a Temporary Resident Permit (“TRP”), that could have allowed her to remain in Canada in the event that her Permanent Residence were to be refused, was also refused though IRCC did not communicate the decision to her.

We challenged both decisions at the Federal Court. Thankfully, IRCC agreed to re-open the TRP application without a fight. The refusal of her application for criminal rehabilitation proceeded to a hearing at the Federal Court. At the hearing, we argued that the most important consideration in an application for criminal rehabilitation, the likelihood of the applicant re-offending, was not considered whatsoever in the refusal decision, rendering it unreasonable. Thankfully, the Court agreed with our position and allowed the Judicial Review, sending our client’s application for criminal rehabilitation a different IRCC Officer for a redetermination!