By Nilufar SadeghiJoseph W. Allen & Associates In Kandha v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) 2016 FC 430, an application for judicial review is brought forward by two applicants, who are sisters, of a decision by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada’s Refugee Appeal Division (hereby referred to as the RAD), where it dismissed their appeal of the decision of the Refugee Protection Division (hereby referred to as the RPD) refusing their refugee claim. ContextMs. Annasacha, born in 1990, and her younger sister Ms. Anneila, born in 1996, had initially arrived in Canada with their mother Ms. Kandha in 2014. They are citizens of Trinidad and Tobago who were fleeing Ms. Kandha’s violent common law partner, Mr. Rooplal. Mr. Rooplal was verbally, physically and sexually abusive towards Ms. Kandha continuously, as well as towards the applicants on at least one occasion. His job as a senior customs officer had made… Lire la suite
