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Immigration law 2023 FC 1561

Shala v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court held that the Immigration Division unreasonably treated the Palestinian Authority as part of the PLO without adequately addressing contradictory evidence.

  • Inadmissibility under irpa s.34(1)
  • Membership in terrorist organization
  • Reasonableness standard of review (vavilov)
  • Organizational relationship analysis (pa vs plo)
  • Immigration-law
  • Inadmissibility
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Immigration law 2023 CF 1212

Vaho c. Canada (Sécurité publique et Protection civile)

La Cour fédérale rejette le contrôle judiciaire et confirme la décision de la Section de l’immigration concluant raisonnablement à l’appartenance du demandeur à la FESCI.

  • Inadmissibility for terrorism
  • Membership in terrorist organization
  • Credibility assessment
  • Standard of review (reasonableness)
  • Controle-judiciaire
  • Inadmissibilite-terrorisme
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Immigration law 2023 FC 396

Numvi v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness)

The Federal Court allowed judicial review of an Immigration Division decision finding SCNC-related inadmissibility, holding the reasons unreasonably ignored contradictory evidence.

  • Inadmissibility
  • Membership
  • Terrorism
  • Subversion by force
  • Judicial review
  • Reasonableness review (vavilov)
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Immigration law 2022 FC 403

Chowdhury v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court declined to certify the Minister’s proposed question under IRPA s. 74(d), finding it was not a serious question of general importance.

  • Certification of question under irpa s.74(d)
  • Standard of review: reasonableness
  • Temporal nexus for membership-based inadmissibility under s.34(1)(f)
  • Inferring specific intent from foreseeability
  • Irpa-s-74d-certification
  • Judicial-review
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Immigration law 2018 FC 480

Kamal v. Canada (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship)

Judicial review of an IRPA inadmissibility finding was dismissed. The Court upheld the Immigration Division’s rulings on expert evidence, bias, membership, and terrorism.

  • Inadmissibility under irpa s34
  • Membership in organization
  • Definition of terrorism
  • Standard of review (reasonableness vs correctness)
  • Reasonable apprehension of bias
  • Admission of expert evidence
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Immigration law 2016 FC 820

Cacha Collas v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Federal Court allowed judicial review of an IAD inadmissibility decision, finding the evidence relied on was too weak to establish reasonable grounds to believe membership in Shining Path.

  • Inadmissibility under s.34 irpa
  • Membership in terrorist organization
  • Reasonable grounds to believe
  • Credibility assessment
  • Exclusion of evidence obtained by torture
  • Standard of review - reasonableness
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Immigration law VB1-02487

VB1-02487

The panel found the claimant did provide services to the LTTE, the LTTE is established as a terrorist organization, the claimant’s duress/compulsion evidence was not credible and he had opportunities to seek protection or flee; therefore there are serious reasons to consider he committed a serious non-political crime and he is excluded from refugee protection under Article 1F(b)/s.98 IRPA.

  • Exclusion under article 1f(b) / s.98 irpa
  • Serious non-political crime
  • Terrorism-related offences (s.83.03, s.83.19 criminal code)
  • Credibility and duress/compulsion
  • Mitigating and aggravating circumstances
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Immigration law 2013 FC 1146

B074 v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Federal Court granted judicial review, set aside an IAD inadmissibility finding, and remitted the matter after finding the membership analysis was unreasonable.

  • Membership in terrorist organization
  • Inadmissibility under irpa
  • Duress defence
  • Standard of review - reasonableness
  • Membership-in-terrorist-organization
  • Inadmissibility-under-irpa
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Immigration law 2011 FC 1379

Sellappha v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Judicial review of a visa refusal was dismissed after the Court upheld a finding that the principal applicant was inadmissible for LTTE membership under IRPA s. 34(1)(f).

  • Inadmissibility under s.11 irpa
  • Membership in terrorist organization (s.34(1)(f))
  • Procedural fairness
  • Standard of review
  • Interview requirement and waiver
  • Coercion defence
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Immigration law 2011 FC 1013

Belalcazar v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of an immigration inadmissibility decision, holding the Board reasonably rejected duress because imminence was not established.

  • Duress defence
  • Membership in terrorist organization
  • Admissibility
  • Standard of review
  • Adequacy of reasons
  • Plausibility findings
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