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Immigration law 2026 FC 316

Ndikumana v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a permanent residence refusal, holding the applicants did not prove a genuine parent-child relationship under IRPR s. 4(2)(b).

  • Adoption
  • Dependent child definition
  • Procedural fairness
  • Reasonableness review
  • Immigration-law
  • Judicial-review
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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 1543

Ngo v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Le Tribunal fédéral rejette le contrôle judiciaire d’un refus de parrainage, jugeant que la définition réglementaire de “dependent child” applicable en 2022 s’appliquait et que l’âge était verrouillé à la date du dépôt.

  • Dependent child definition
  • Age lock-in / subsection 25.1(1) irpr
  • Legitimate expectation
  • Standard of review - reasonableness
  • Procedural fairness
  • Immigration-law
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Immigration law 2025 FC 763

Kaur v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a PR refusal, holding the officer reasonably applied the dependent-child rules and the H&C hardship test.

  • Dependent child definition
  • Humanitarian and compassionate relief
  • Standard of review (reasonableness)
  • Judicial review procedure
  • Age limit for dependency
  • Dependent-child
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Immigration 2025 FC 222

Ahmed v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court allowed judicial review, finding procedural fairness was breached when an officer questioned medical evidence’s veracity without giving the applicants a chance to respond.

  • Dependent child definition
  • Veracity of evidence
  • Procedural fairness
  • Immigration and refugee protection regulations s 2
  • Procedural-fairness
  • Immigration
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Immigration law 2024 FC 1878

Gaffar v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Application for judicial review dismissed as reasonable. The Court upheld the officer’s refusal to reconsider the exclusion of two adult children from a spousal sponsorship H&C request.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate considerations
  • Dependent child definition
  • Discretion and fettering
  • Standard of review (reasonableness)
  • Humanitarian-and-compassionate-considerations
  • Dependent-child-definition
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Immigration 2024 FC 1076

Lepcha v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of an officer’s removal of an adult child from a permanent residence application, finding no procedural unfairness or reviewable error.

  • Procedural fairness
  • Dependent child definition
  • Lock-in date
  • Reasonableness review
  • Charter s.15 claim
  • Procedural-fairness
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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 554

Uyanze v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court allowed judicial review of an IAD decision, finding the reasons lacked transparency and intelligibility and remitted the matter for redetermination by a different panel.

  • Reasonableness review
  • Reasons for decision
  • Family class sponsorship
  • Dependent child definition
  • Misrepresentation
  • Jurisdiction
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Immigration law 2024 FC 362

Skinder v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court upheld a misrepresentation finding under IRPA s. 40(1)(a) and dismissed the applicants’ judicial review.

  • Misrepresentation
  • Dependent child definition
  • Duty of candour
  • Procedural fairness
  • Reasonableness standard
  • Judicial-review
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