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Immigration law 2025 FC 1975

Nguyen v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a refused criminal rehabilitation application, finding no procedural unfairness and concluding the officer’s decision was reasonable.

  • Criminal inadmissibility
  • Criminal rehabilitation
  • Procedural fairness
  • Judicial review
  • Reasonableness standard
  • Recidivism assessment
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Immigration law 2024 FC 1300

Dedvukaj v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Federal Court upheld the PRRA and rehabilitation refusals, but quashed the H&C decisions for flawed best-interests-of-the-child and establishment analyses.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate relief
  • Pre-removal risk assessment (prra)
  • Criminal rehabilitation
  • Inadmissibility and exclusion
  • Best interests of the child (bioc)
  • Standard of review - reasonableness
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Immigration 2023 FC 666

Fazekas v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court allowed judicial review of an IRCC refusal of criminal rehabilitation, finding the officer gave no adequate analysis linking the evidence to a risk of reoffending.

  • Criminal rehabilitation
  • Inadmissibility
  • Reasonableness review
  • Judicial review
  • Section 36 irpa
  • Criminal-rehabilitation
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Immigration law 2022 FC 1169

Thomas v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness)

The Federal Court allowed judicial review of a ministerial relief refusal, finding the Minister unreasonably failed to address evidence and submissions on “danger” under s. 42.1(3).

  • Ministerial relief s.42.1
  • Inadmissibility
  • National interest
  • Judicial review
  • Standard of review - reasonableness
  • Criminal rehabilitation
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Immigration law 2022 FC 684

Markar v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Federal Court allowed judicial review of an immigration misrepresentation refusal, finding the officer failed to analyze the innocent mistake exception and inducement under IRPA.

  • Misrepresentation under s.40(1)(a) irpa
  • Innocent error/innocent mistake exception
  • Materiality of omissions
  • Inducement of error in administration
  • Standard of review (vavilov)
  • Criminal rehabilitation
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Immigration law 2022 FC 602

Truong v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a criminal rehabilitation refusal, finding the officer’s reasons reasonable and no legal or procedural error.

  • Criminal rehabilitation
  • Inadmissibility
  • Judicial review
  • Procedural fairness
  • Reasonableness review
  • Deemed rehabilitation
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Immigration law 2020 FC 748

De Campos Gregorio v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court allowed judicial review of a refusal of criminal rehabilitation, finding the officer failed to assess whether the applicant was likely to reoffend.

  • Criminal rehabilitation
  • Inadmissibility for serious criminality
  • Judicial review
  • Reasonableness review
  • Recidivism assessment
  • Criminal-rehabilitation
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Immigration law 2020 FC 455

Cruz v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court granted judicial review, finding the officer’s criminal inadmissibility analysis unreasonable because it lacked a proper equivalency assessment.

  • Criminal inadmissibility
  • Equivalency assessment
  • Humanitarian and compassionate considerations
  • Criminal rehabilitation
  • Procedural fairness
  • Standard of review - reasonableness
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Immigration law 2020 FC 168

Denha v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review, finding the immigration officer reasonably concluded Mr. Denha was inadmissible for organized criminality under s 37(1)(a) IRPA.

  • Organized criminality
  • Inadmissibility
  • Criminal rehabilitation
  • Standard of review (reasonableness)
  • Organized-criminality
  • Criminal-rehabilitation
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Immigration law 2019 FC 1415

Evangelou v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Federal Court granted judicial review of an H&C inadmissibility decision, finding the officer’s reasons on the best interests of the children and hardship were inadequate.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
  • Inadmissibility
  • Temporary resident permit
  • Best interests of the child
  • Criminal rehabilitation
  • Judicial review
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