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Immigration law 2025 FC 1959

Uba v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a visa officer’s removal of proposed dependents from a parent sponsorship application and refused certification.

  • Dependent child definition
  • Humanitarian and compassionate considerations
  • Procedural fairness
  • Standard of review (reasonableness)
  • Certification of question
  • Dependent-child-definition
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Immigration law 2025 FC 1820

Bathia v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court held that the refusal of an authorization to return to Canada was reasonable and dismissed the judicial review.

  • Authorization to return to canada (s.52(1) irpa)
  • Departure order
  • Reasonableness review (vavilov)
  • Credibility assessment
  • Failure to declare goods
  • Authorization-to-return-to-canada
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Immigration law 2025 FC 1747

Ali v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed a judicial review of an IAD refusal involving an altered police certificate, finding the misrepresentation and H&C analysis reasonable.

  • Misrepresentation
  • Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
  • Police certificate
  • Inadmissibility
  • Standard of review - reasonableness
  • Late evidence/filing
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Immigration law 2025 FC 1339

Arman Moghadam v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court granted mandamus after a 52-month delay in processing a family permanent residence application, ordering IRCC to act within 90 days.

  • Unreasonable delay
  • Security screening
  • Sponsorship completeness
  • Mandamus remedy
  • Processing timelines
  • Mandamus
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Immigration law 2025 FC 32

Mendoza De Jesus v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court found no procedural fairness breach, but held the H&C refusal unreasonable because it failed to meaningfully assess the applicants’ evidence and relationship context.

  • Exclusion under immigration and refugee protection regulations s.117(9)(d)
  • Humanitarian and compassionate considerations s.25(1) irpa
  • Procedural fairness — extension requests
  • Reasonableness review (vavilov)
  • Assessment of same‑sex relationship context
  • Immigration-law
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Immigration law 2023 FC 1295

Fashina v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a refused spouse sponsorship, holding there was no procedural unfairness and the officer’s non-cohabitation finding was reasonable.

  • Procedural fairness
  • Reasonableness review
  • Spouse sponsorship
  • Cohabitation requirement
  • Bona fides of marriage
  • Irpa and irpr interpretation
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Immigration law 2022 FC 662

Halimi v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court granted judicial review, finding the officer unreasonably failed to assess the applicants’ risk of remaining in Afghanistan separated from their family.

  • Dependency definition
  • Risk from separation and best interests
  • Reasonableness review
  • Procedural fairness
  • Country conditions
  • Remittal
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Immigration law 2020 FC 511

Reducto v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Federal Court held IRCC unreasonably refused H&C relief to include an overage son, finding the officer minimized hardship and relied on unsupported assumptions.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate considerations
  • Dependent child definition
  • Judicial review - reasonableness
  • Best interests of the child
  • Humanitarian-and-compassionate-relief
  • Dependent-child
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Immigration law 2017 FC 925

Trieu v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of an IAD sponsorship refusal, holding the marriage was reasonably found to be entered into primarily for immigration purposes and not genuine.

  • Spouse definition
  • Genuineness of marriage
  • Bad faith marriages
  • Standard of review
  • Sponsorship
  • Immigration-law
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Immigration law 2016 FC 1221

Patel v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of an IAD decision, holding the amended income regulation applied and the H&C refusal was reasonable.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate relief
  • Sponsorship requirements
  • Minimum necessary income (mni)
  • Temporal application of regulations
  • Standard of review
  • Humanitarian-and-compassionate-relief
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