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A spousal sponsorship refusal was overturned after the tribunal accepted the couple’s account of a relationship that began in 2007 and was rekindled years later.
A visa officer refused the permanent residence application of the client’s husband because the officer did not believe that the marriage was genuine. The officer considered the couple’s interrupted relationship history implausible.
The couple gave detailed and consistent testimony. They supported their account with communication records, evidence of financial support, and letters from family members.
The appeal presented the relationship as a complete timeline, explaining how the couple met in Nigeria in 2007, lost contact after the client immigrated to Canada, and reconnected nearly a decade later.
The tribunal found that the officer’s concerns did not outweigh the totality of the evidence. The appeal was allowed, and the refusal was set aside.
A spousal sponsorship appeal succeeded after the tribunal assessed prior omissions in context and found that the marriage was genuine.
A spousal sponsorship appeal was allowed after the government discovered that the document said to be missing had been in its own file throughout the case.
A spousal sponsorship appeal succeeded on both the genuineness of the marriage and humanitarian relief from a misrepresentation finding.
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