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Immigration law 2026 FC 564

Monga v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court granted judicial review of an H&C redetermination, finding the officer ignored central evidence on language, schooling, and hardship and relied on speculation.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
  • Judicial review
  • Reasonableness review
  • Best interests of the child
  • Establishment in canada
  • Internal flight alternative
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Immigration law 2026 FC 524

Njeru v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court granted judicial review of an H&C refusal, finding the officer’s best-interests-of-the-child analysis unreasonable for failing to address key financial dependence evidence.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
  • Best interests of the child
  • Standard of review
  • Judicial review
  • Reasonableness
  • Remittal
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Immigration law 2026 FC 526

Mendoza Lescano v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court granted judicial review of an H&C refusal, finding the officer failed to assess the applicants’ situation empathetically and holistically.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
  • Reasonableness review
  • Establishment and self-sufficiency
  • Best interests of the child
  • Humanitarian-and-compassionate-grounds
  • Reasonableness-review
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Immigration law 2026 FC 515

Lin v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court granted judicial review, finding the officer failed to consider that the applicant fled abuse and lost spousal sponsorship, making the H&C refusal unreasonable.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
  • Judicial review - reasonableness
  • Spousal sponsorship
  • Domestic abuse and evidentiary sensitivity
  • Humanitarian-and-compassionate-grounds
  • Judicial-review-reasonableness
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Immigration and refugee law 2026 FC 507

Oduleye v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court granted judicial review of an H&C refusal, finding the officer failed to transparently weigh the factors and improperly assessed the child’s best interests.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
  • Best interests of the child
  • Reasonableness review
  • Establishment in canada
  • Hardship
  • Humanitarian-and-compassionate-grounds
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Immigration law 2026 FC 477

Sikder v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court granted judicial review of an H&C refusal after finding the officer misapprehended the applicant’s evidence of prior gender-based harm in Bangladesh.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
  • Judicial review
  • Reasonableness standard (vavilov)
  • Gender-based persecution
  • Internal flight alternative
  • Judicial-review
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Immigration law 2026 FC 441

Le v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Federal Court dismissed judicial review of an H&C refusal, holding the officer reasonably assessed establishment, children’s interests, and psychological evidence.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
  • Best interests of the child
  • Judicial review - reasonableness
  • Evaluation of psychological evidence
  • Establishment in canada
  • Humanitarian-and-compassionate-grounds
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Immigration law 2026 FC 434

Ghotra v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of an IAD decision upholding an exclusion order for misrepresentation and refusing H&C relief under s. 67(1)(c).

  • Misrepresentation
  • Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
  • Standard of review
  • Marriage of convenience
  • Best interests of the child
  • Humanitarian-and-compassionate-grounds
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Immigration 2026 FC 426

Sangarappillai v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a refused H&C application, holding the applicant offered thin evidence and had not shown the officer’s decision was unreasonable.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
  • Best interests of the child
  • Country conditions
  • Standard of review (reasonableness)
  • Humanitarian-and-compassionate-grounds
  • Best-interests-of-the-child
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Immigration law 2026 FC 397

Roberts v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of an H&C refusal, finding the officer reasonably assessed the evidence on the child applicant’s mental health and best interests.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
  • Best interests of the child
  • Judicial review - reasonableness
  • Evidence and burden of proof
  • Psychiatric evidence
  • Humanitarian-and-compassionate-grounds
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