February 14, 2024

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.