By Nilufar SadeghiJoseph W. Allen & Associates In Tchangoue v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) 2016 FC 334, an application for judicial review is brought forward by Ms. Tchangoue of a decision by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada’s Refugee Appeal Division (hereby referred to as the RAD), where it dismissed Ms. Tchangoue’s appeal of the decision of the Refugee Protection Division (hereby referred to as the RPD) refusing her refugee claim. Pertinent Legislation Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (S.C. 2001, c. 27) 110 (1) Subject to subsections (1.1) and (2), a person or the Minister may appeal, in accordance with the rules of the Board, on a question of law, of fact or of mixed law and fact, to the Refugee Appeal Division against a decision of the Refugee Protection Division to allow or reject the person’s claim for refugee protection.[…] Procedure(3) Subject to subsections (3.1), (4) and (6),… Lire la suite
Domaine de droit : Droit de l'immigration
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Mar2016
Case Comment: Tzu-Tsen Lim c The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, 2016 FC 217.
By Rizwan Ahmad Khan Gondal.Lim c Canada is a case which brings to light the importance of tendering evidence in proving one’s assertion. In this case, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration could not prove his defence that he had indeed mailed a letter to the designated recipient on the date that he claimed that he did. The failure to prove was thus deemed sufficient to the overturning of the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration’s administrative order. ContextAfter having received Ms. Lim’s Canadian citizenship application in June of 2010, [Para 5] the Citizenship office sent her a letter on October 22, 2014, requesting additional information. [Para 6] She responded to the letter on time. [Para 6] However, subsequently, on April 13, 2015, the office sent the applicant yet another letter asking for some further information. This letter stated that if the applicant failed to ‘respond on time’, her citizenship application… Lire la suite
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Juil2015
Determination of a “Country of Reference” for the assessment of an individual’s refugee claim
By Nilufar SadeghiJoseph W. Allen & Associates In Dolma v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) 2015 FC 703, an application for judicial review is brought forward by Ms. Dolma of a decision by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada’s Refugee Protection Division (hereby referred to as the RPD), where the Board refused her refugee claim. Pertinent Legislation 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees Article 1. Definition of the term “refugee”A. For the purpose of the present Convention, the term “refugee” shall apply to any person who: […] (2) […] In the case of a person who has more than one nationality, the term “the country of his nationality” shall mean each of the countries of which he is a national, and a person shall not be deemed to be lacking the protection of the country of his nationality if, without any valid reason based on well-founded fear, he… Lire la suite
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Juin2015
A person’s refugee protection cannot be ceased for having applied for a passport from their country of origin
By Nilufar Sadeghi Joseph W. Allen & AssociatesIn Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) v. Bashir 2015 FC 51, an application for judicial review is brought forward by the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness on a decision by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada’s Refugee Protection Division, where the Board refused to cease the refugee protection of Mr. Bashir, for having applied and obtained a passport from his country of origin, Pakistan, after having been accepted in Canada as a refugee. The Minister had argued in first instance before the Immigration and Refugee Board that the fact that Mr. Bashir presented himself at the Pakistani Consulate and obtained a passport, demonstrated a lack of fear of his country of origin and that as such, his refugee protection should cease. Pertinent Legislation Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (S.C. 2001, c. 27) s.108. (1) A claim for refugee protection… Lire la suite
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Août2013
Complicité dans la perpétration de crimes contre l’humanité
Par Sophie LacroixPellerin Savitz s.e.n.c.r.l. Un demandeur d’asile se pourvoit contre une décision de la Commission de l’immigration et du statut de réfugié. Ainsi, dans Ezokola c. Canada (Citoyenneté et Immigration) (2013 CSC 40), le plus haut tribunal au pays doit trancher si la simple association ou l’acquiescement passif suffisent pour établir la complicité et s’il y a lieu d’adopter un critère axé sur la contribution afin d’établir la complicité. Ces deux interrogations sont respectivement répondues par la négative et l’affirmative par la Cour. Les faits L’appelant a fait carrière au gouvernement de la République démocratique du Congo (ci-après « RDC ») en tant qu’attaché financier de 1999 à 2007, puis devint directeur de la Mission permanente de la RDC aux Nations Unies, à New-York. En 2008, il abandonna ses fonctions et s’enfuit au Canada, n’étant plus en mesure de servir le gouvernement, devenu corrompu, antidémocratique et violent. L’appelant fait valoir que… Lire la suite
Un conte de Noël
Marie-HélèneBeaudoinMcCarthyTétrault Quoi de mieux que de lire un contede Noël jurisprudentiel pour se mettre dans l’esprit des Fêtes? Si cela vousdit, j’ai ce qu’il vous faut : Safdarc. Canada (Citoyenneté et Immigration),TB1-06857, 28 novembre 2011, une décision rendue par la Section d’appel de laCommission de l’immigration et du statut de réfugié du Canada. La Sectiond’appel de l’immigration prend ici inspiration sur le « Conte de Noël »de Charles Dickens pour finalement casser la décision rendue par un agent desvisas qui n’était pas convaincu que l’appelante allait résider au Canada unefois le visa de résident permanent accordé. C’est ainsi que le fantôme del’immigration passée montre au tribunal des images de l’appelante et de sonépoux au moment de leur immigration au Canada, que le fantôme de l’immigrationprésente entre ensuite en scène pour montrer d’autres images et que le tribunalest finalement amené au fantôme de l’immigration future, « car le passén’est maintenant plus qu’une ombre ». En conclusion,… Lire la suite