Kaur v. MCI, 2025 FC 602 is an interesting case -it’s about a refusal of a sponsorship due to failure to meet the MNI. Now -there are two boxes on the top of the application -the one on the left
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Overcoming an overseas spousal sponsorship refusal -Success at the Immigration Appeal Division
Spousal sponsorship appeals before the Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) often turn on accusations of “bad faith” marriages, where the government questions whether a relationship is genuine or was entered into primarily to gain immigration status. These cases can be complex,
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Understanding Canada’s Permanent Resident Residency Obligation: A Guide for Newcomers
For those fortunate enough to have navigated either economic or non-economic pathways to permanent resident (PR) status in Canada, maintaining that status comes with certain responsibilities. One of the most critical is the residency obligation under Section 28 of the
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Stay of Removals -Deferral Requests and the Federal Court
Practitioners should be alert to the increasing rate of removals by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), as more deferral requests and Federal Court stay applications will likely follow. A thorough discussion of these issues appears in Inadmissibility and Remedies
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Deporting a Protected Person -The Danger Opinion
Abbasi v. MCI 2025 FC 442 from March 10, 2025, presided over by Justice Angus G. Grant, dismissing a judicial review application by Daryoush Abbasi against a “danger opinion” issued by a delegate of the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and
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Advocacy Before the Immigration and Refugee Board and the Federal Court of Canada [Summarized]
The following is a summary of a presentation done in 2021 for the SABA Advocacy Webinar.
Effective advocacy before the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) and the Federal Court of Canada demands thorough preparation and a deep understanding of the
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The 30 Year War
Vic Satzewich’s 2021 article, “Lawyers, Immigration Consultants and the 33-Year Jurisdictional War,” published in the Canadian Review of Sociology (Vol. 58, pp. 186-206), focused on his observations of the 33-year jurisdictional conflict between lawyers and immigration consultants in Canada.
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The Perils of Judging “Subjective Fear”: A Reminder Amid Canada’s Refugee Backlog
As a refugee lawyer with over 20 years at hearings, a former refugee protection officer, and someone who tackled unwarranted deference to adjudication in my LLM research, I’ve seen the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) wrestle and sometimes struggle with
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Punjabi Language Broadcast Discussing the Political Impasse and the Trump Presidency on Immigration Policy and Processing
I was interviewed on January 13, 2025 by Rishi Nagar, the inestimable news director of RedFM Calgary discussing the significant changes that the new year has already brought. The
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December 27, 2024 Interview on CBC News Network on the Allegations of Widespread Human Smuggling
Natasha Fatah Raj Sharma, who’s joining us from Calgary, he is the founder and managing partner of Stewart Sharma Harsanyi, one of Canada’s largest dedicated immigration law firms. Raj, thanks so much for making time for us. Raj Sharma KC:
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