NOW REBRANDED
Matkowsky Immigration Law is now Unified Immigration Lawyers. Same firm, same lawyers — new name.
Matkowsky Immigration Law is now Unified Immigration Lawyers. Same firm, same lawyers — new name.
A permanent residence refusal and five-year ban were overturned after the Federal Court found that the applicant had not been given a meaningful opportunity to answer the allegations against him.
Our client sought help after his permanent residence application was refused based on allegations that he had deliberately misrepresented his employment history. The finding made him inadmissible to Canada for five years and left a serious allegation of dishonesty on his immigration record.
The officer’s concerns were based primarily on a site-visit report prepared after officials visited an outdated workplace address. The report was not provided to our client before the decision, and the procedural fairness letter referred only generally to concerns about his
work experience.
Our legal team argued that the government could not make a serious finding of deliberate misrepresentation while withholding the evidence behind the allegation. We demonstrated that the vague fairness letter left our client guessing about the case he was expected to answer.
The Federal Court allowed the judicial review and set the refusal aside. The Court held that procedural fairness protections are heightened when a refusal may result in a misrepresentation finding and a five-year ban.
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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