Our Recent Immigration Success Stories

Success at Federal Court leads to Permanent Residency

We were initially approached by our clients, a family, who were refused their application for permanent residence based on humanitarian and compassionate (H&C) grounds. We assisted in challenging the refusal to the Federal Court, conducting research and carefully crafting legal arguments to explain why the Officer’s decision was unreasonable and should be set aside. After the matter was granted leave and a hearing was scheduled, the Department of Justice, who represented the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, offered to settle and send the application back for redetermination without proceeding to a full Judicial Review hearing! 

The clients then retained us to assist with the redetermination of their H&C application. After many months of patiently waiting and appropriately timed follow ups, we were ecstatic when our clients were invited to confirm their permanent residence from within Canada. We are so thrilled that they have finally become permanent residents in Canada, and that we were able to assist them in achieving this goal despite their initial refusal. We wish them all the best as they continue their lives in Canada! 

Overcoming Adversity: Victory in In-Canada Spousal Sponsorship Application

We assisted a family with an in-Canada Spousal Sponsorship (ICC) application in responding to a Procedural Fairness letter concerning both a history of criminal convictions overseas and a failure to disclose that history. With this matter, it was therefore necessary to address two types of inadmissibility: criminality and misrepresentation. If these two inadmissibilities were decided by IRCC, it would not only have led to a refusal of the application but also found the applicant inadmissible, resulting in a ban on the family from reapplying for a period of five years. Therefore, in our response, we included a rehabilitation application to address the criminal history together with submissions advocating for an exemption from misrepresentation. We were most pleased when IRCC approved the application six months later.

Protecting Permanent Resident Status in IRCC Misrepresentation Investigation

We were recently successful in presenting our client’s circumstances to IRCC, who invited our client for an interview as part of IRCC’s investigation into the genuineness of our client’s marriage (based on which our client had obtained their permanent resident status in Canada). The IRCC officer, in their communication, advised that they had concerns that our client (whom we did not previously assist with any immigration matter) may have misrepresented their marital status at the time of landing in Canada, and if so determined, they would be found inadmissible to Canada. We worked extensively with our client to collect documents evidencing that their marriage to their ex-spouse was, in fact, genuine (relying on the test established by jurisprudence). Our office also presented an explanation with extensive evidence in support that some documents that one is generally expected to have were not available for reasons beyond our client’s control and despite their best efforts to collect them.

We were very happy to hear that after our written submissions and IRCC’s interview with our client, the officer decided not to take any further action against our client and their permanent resident status was not jeopardized.

Refugee Claim Accepted from the Bench

Our client retained us for assistance with making a refugee claim. We helped him prepare the forms, the narrative, and the documents, all of which were submitted to the Immigration and Refugee Board to start his claim. While waiting for the hearing date, we helped the client gather additional documents to support his claim and submitted an extensive documentation package to the Board. We also had several preparation sessions with the client to prepare him to testify before the Board.

On the hearing date, our client gave his testimony and less than two hours into the hearing, the Board Member stated that he was accepting our client’s refugee claim. The client was declared a Convention Refugee on the spot and will soon be able to become a Permanent Resident of Canada.