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Immigration law 2025 FC 1510

Sidhu v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Judicial review dismissed. The Court held there was no procedural unfairness and that the officer reasonably found insufficient evidence to establish overage dependency under the IRPR.

  • Overage dependent
  • Procedural fairness
  • Reasonableness review
  • Vavilov framework
  • Irpr s.2(b)(ii) definition
  • Procedural-fairness
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Immigration law 2025 FC 1031

Sepasi-Ashtiani v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Judicial review of an IRCC sponsorship refusal was granted because the officer assessed the wrong taxation years for the minimum necessary income test.

  • Minimum necessary income
  • Lock-in date
  • Procedural fairness
  • Reasonableness review
  • Interpretation of irpr s133(1)(j)(i)
  • Judicial-review
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Immigration law 2024 FC 1867

San Juan Valdelamar v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a returned sponsorship application, finding the missing representative form made the package incomplete and the refusal reasonable.

  • Dependent child sponsorship
  • Lock‑in date
  • Screening/return of incomplete application
  • Humanitarian and compassionate relief
  • Justiciability
  • Judicial-review
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Immigration law 2024 FC 1051

Cardenas v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court allowed judicial review of an H&C refusal, finding the officer misapprehended evidence about support, care needs, and family separation in Colombia.

  • Section 25 irpa (h&c relief)
  • Dependent child definition
  • De facto family member analysis
  • Standard of review — reasonableness
  • Procedural fairness and evidentiary assessment
  • Humanitarian-and-compassionate-relief
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Immigration law 2024 FC 238

Dwarka v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court granted judicial review of an IAD decision finding the marriage non-genuine, holding the IAD unreasonably relied on minor discrepancies and narrow inferences.

  • Genuineness of marriage
  • Sponsorship eligibility
  • Reasonableness review
  • Credibility and weighing of evidence
  • Immigration-law
  • Family-sponsorship
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Immigration law 2023 FC 16

Satkunanathan v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of an IAD redetermination, finding no breach of procedural fairness and no unreasonableness in refusing special relief from the MNI requirement.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate considerations
  • Minimum necessary income (mni) requirement
  • Procedural fairness
  • Credibility findings
  • Judicial review - reasonableness
  • Judicial-review
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Immigration law 2022 FC 1378

Tramosljanin v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court granted judicial review of a refused H&C application, finding the officer unreasonably ignored key evidence on Bosnia support and parental sponsorship.

  • H&c discretion
  • Best interests of the child
  • Reasonableness review
  • Evaluation of evidence
  • Parental sponsorship availability
  • Humanitarian-and-compassionate-relief
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Immigration law 2022 FC 804

Kaur v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed two judicial reviews challenging refusals of H&C relief for adult children who were over the dependent child age limit.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate considerations
  • Dependent child age limit
  • Reasonableness standard
  • Family reunification
  • Hardship assessment
  • Humanitarian-and-compassionate-relief
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Immigration law 2022 FC 639

Singh v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court upheld the IAD’s refusal of a family sponsorship appeal, finding the applicant had not provided enough corroborating evidence of income or hardship.

  • Minimum necessary income
  • Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
  • Judicial review
  • Reasonableness standard
  • Judicial-review
  • Family-sponsorship
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Immigration law 2021 FC 816

Safi v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court allowed judicial review, finding the officer unreasonably treated family-class ineligibility as a negative factor in an H&C application.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate relief
  • Judicial review - reasonableness
  • S.25(1) irpa exemptions
  • Sponsorship eligibility (family class)
  • Humanitarian-and-compassionate-relief
  • Judicial-review-reasonableness
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