Our Recent Immigration Success Stories

This Week’s Success Story: Economical Contribution Leads to Permanent Residency!

We had been working together with family members for a number of years to seek permanent residence for a family who had overstayed temporary stays in Canada and ultimately remained as a necessity, and in that time became established, building a Canadian business, and contributed to the Canadian economy. After extensive work in establishing their benefits to Canada and seeking exemptions, the family was recently granted permanent residence in Canada having demonstrated their success and circumstances owing to IRCC’s compassionate consideration.

This Week’s Success Story: Family Overcomes Several Challenges Leading to Permanent Residency!

We were most pleased to recently learn that our long term clients have finally secured permanent residence in Canada. The family’s circumstances which included a young child were unusual in that they had not originally set out to immigrate to Canada. Rather, it was only following an emergency during a vacation in Canada that forced the family to remain well beyond their anticipated visit, and then permanently, thereby leaving behind their entire lives in their country of nationality. Their child was able to secure status after some time, although this left the parents in limbo for many years, facing many challenges, hearings, and a number of different applications. Despite the unexpected and challenging circumstances that lead to their re-settlement in Canada, the family has thrived and successfully established themselves and looks forward to their future in Canada.

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.