.rs-wait-tbl{min-width:0}.rs-wait-tbl td{color:var(--text)}.rs-wait-link{text-decoration:underline}@media (max-width:600px){.rs-wait-tbl{font-size:14px}.rs-wait-tbl th,.rs-wait-tbl td{padding:8px 9px}} The waiting period for a record suspension does not run from the date of the offence or the date ...
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Some individuals, seeking an easier path to Canada, may enter into a marriage with a Canadian citizen or permanent resident without having a genuine marital ...
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As counsel, I have appeared before the Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) in a number of appeals involving removal orders arising from criminality. What factors are ...
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There is no mechanism to simply “strip” a permanent resident of their status in Canada. The loss of permanent resident status must occur through a ...
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If you are making a refugee claim when you arrive in Canada, one of your first interactions will be with a Canada Border Services Agency ...
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Many people who are subject to a removal order and have a scheduled date for removal believe that they can simply file an “appeal” with ...
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A right of appeal to the Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) exists only where section 63 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act creates one, and ...
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If your parents or grandparents’ immigration application has been refused, you may still have options. The appropriate remedy will depend on the reason for the ...
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Section 40 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act makes a permanent resident or a foreign national inadmissible to Canada for misrepresentation in four defined ...
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Both routes do the same work — they stop a criminal record from outside Canada being a ground of inadmissibility — but only one of ...
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Equivalency is the comparison a Canadian decision-maker makes when the offence happened somewhere else: the foreign offence is measured against Canadian law to work out ...
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A Pre-Removal Risk Assessment, almost always shortened to PRRA, is the last risk assessment Canadian law provides before a removal order is carried out. It ...
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Canadian immigration law does not have one removal order. It has three — departure, exclusion and deportation — and the difference between them is not ...
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An admissibility hearing is a proceeding before the Immigration Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board that settles one question: whether a permanent resident or ...
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An immigration detention review is a hearing at which a member of the Immigration Division decides whether a person held under the Immigration and Refugee ...
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An appeal to the Refugee Appeal Division is not a second hearing of a refugee claim. It is a review of a decision already made, ...
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The Basis of Claim form is the document a refugee claim is built on. It is completed once, early, and then read by the Refugee ...
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A refugee hearing at the Refugee Protection Division (RPD) is usually the first time a claimant has to explain, out loud and under oath, why ...
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To build a proper defence against an immigration removal order, one has to understand that there are several types of removal orders and they are ...
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Canadian citizens have an unconditional right to enter and return to Canada following travel abroad. Permanent residents also have the right to return to Canada, ...
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