Common-Law Relationship Declaration

For most applicants from countries where the legal systems are not based on common law, the common-law relationships are as much mysterious and difficult to understand for some, and convenient and beneficial for the other. For some, they face losing their permanent residency status for not declaring it in certain cases. For the other, it…

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Removal Order Appeal (Ingenuine Job Offer)

The appellant Mr. Z is a young man in his late 20s. He came to Canada in 2001 as an international student and graduated from university in 2008. He utilized his experience from mid 2008 to mid 2009 to apply for immigration under the Canadian Experience Class and became a permanent resident of Canada in…

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Retrospectivity of Misrepresentation

This was an admissibility hearing held in late 2017 for misrepresentation. Simply put, the if you get or maintain your permanent residency status by making false representation before Canadian government, you could be deprived of your status, and banned from entering Canada for another five years, pursuant to IRPA section 40: 40 (1) A permanent…

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Admissibility Hearing for Misrepresentation

The appellant, Mr. Zhang, had fabricated his travel documents in his Permanent residence card renewal application in 2010. In 2016, CBSA notice his case involved in the massive immigration fraud of Wang Xun during the investigation. This should have been a fairly simple and ordinary case. Yet the Supreme Court of Canada just concluded an immigration appeal…

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