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Immigration law 2025 FC 1802

Ahmed v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court found the RAD’s risk analysis unreasonable because it did not meaningfully engage with the applicant’s evidence about his family’s links to the Gaddafi regime.

  • Well-founded fear of persecution
  • Risk under section 97 irpa
  • Forward-looking risk assessment
  • Tribal/associational persecution
  • Reasonableness review (vavilov)
  • Admission of evidence and oral hearing
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Immigration law 2025 FC 1796

Qasim v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Federal Court dismissed a judicial review of a RAD decision, finding the assessment of consultant competence, new evidence, and forward-looking risk in Romania reasonable.

  • Consultant/representation competence
  • Admissibility of new evidence
  • Forward‑looking risk assessment
  • Standard of review (reasonableness)
  • Judicial review procedure
  • Judicial-review
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Immigration law 2025 FC 1714

Alaraibi v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a Refugee Appeal Division decision, finding its assessment of intersectionality, credibility, and future risk was reasonable.

  • Convention refugee
  • Person in need of protection
  • Reasonableness review
  • Intersectionality
  • Credibility assessment
  • Forward-looking risk assessment
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Immigration law 2025 FC 767

Arakaza v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed four brothers’ judicial review of a refusal of privately sponsored refugee permanent residence, finding the officer’s credibility findings reasonable and the process fair.

  • Convention refugee abroad class
  • Credibility assessment
  • Procedural fairness
  • Interpreter issues
  • Reasonable apprehension of bias
  • Forward-looking risk assessment
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Immigration law 2024 FC 2097

Altug v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court granted judicial review of a PRRA decision, finding the officer unreasonably focused on missing corroboration and failed to assess forward-looking persecution risk.

  • Pre-removal risk assessment (prra)
  • Reasonableness review
  • Procedural fairness
  • Forward-looking risk assessment
  • Persecution on convention grounds
  • Torture and cruel and unusual treatment
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Immigration TC3-10936

TC3-10936

The appeal is dismissed because the RAD found the new evidence was not admissible (it arose before the RPD decision or was reasonably available) and, on a balance of probabilities, the appellant failed to establish her SOGIESC identity or a forward-looking risk of persecution; material omissions in the BOC and lack of corroboration fatally undermined credibility.

  • Credibility
  • New evidence
  • Gender guidelines
  • Sogiesc guidelines
  • Corroboration
  • Forward-looking risk assessment
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Immigration TC2-07557

TC2-07557

Appeal dismissed because, after admitting the late affidavits, the adjudicator found that the appellant failed to demonstrate a serious possibility of persecution or, on balance of probabilities, a risk of section 97(1) harm given (1) credibility deficits and lack of corroboration, (2) absence of individualized aggravating factors or political profile, and (3) country evidence that Hoa Hao followers without a political profile generally can practice without persecution.

  • Credibility assessment
  • Forward‑looking risk assessment
  • Religious freedom
  • Corroboration
  • Admissibility of new evidence
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Immigration law 2022 FC 1647

Rrukaj v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed a judicial review of a Refugee Appeal Division decision, finding no procedural fairness, evidentiary, or reasonableness error.

  • Procedural fairness
  • Credibility findings
  • Reasonableness review
  • Admissibility of evidence on appeal
  • Forward‑looking risk assessment
  • Rad error‑correction powers
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Immigration law 2022 FC 1173

Aldarurah v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Judicial review of a PRRA refusal was dismissed. The Court found no procedural unfairness, no right to an oral hearing, and no reviewable error in the forward-looking risk analysis.

  • Pre-removal risk assessment (prra)
  • Section 96 irpa (convention refugee)
  • Section 97 irpa (person in need of protection)
  • Procedural fairness
  • Oral hearing
  • New evidence admissibility
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Immigration 2022 FC 631

Sivakumar v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed a judicial review of a negative PRRA decision, holding the officer reasonably relied on current country reports and conducted a forward-looking risk assessment.

  • Pre-removal risk assessment
  • Country condition evidence
  • Disclosure obligations
  • Forward-looking risk assessment
  • Standard of review
  • Pre-removal-risk-assessment
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