What a crooked game this is! The Minister's Counsel just cancelled our ADR saying they needed to talk to my husband, so they would be wasting my time just to bring me in to ADR when no positive result could be given without talking to my husband. How thoughtful of them! Then they proceeded to write as the appellant has filed over a hundred pages of evidence; the Minister submits that an ADR conference, which is scheduled for only 1 hour, is not the appropriate venue for such a voluminous case to be assessed. The Minister submits that a full day should be allotted for the hearing of this appeal. (I believe they only said this because they know how much it is going to cost to have a lawyer for a whole day and hope that we will just drop it and go away.)
They said there were important credibility issues at the (fabricated) interview which are at the core of the visa officer's refusal. I know who has some credibility issues: The visa officer who said my husband had an unstable income when we submitted proof he has a steady full time job, the visa officer who accused my husband of getting his friend to make up his insurance document when it was verified by the head office of the insurance company as being valid 4 days after the interview, the visa officer who said I had a few visits when I had 8, the visa officer who said there were few if any pictures with family in the application when there were over 100, the fact that a different visa officer other than the one who interviewed my husband entered the interview notes over 2 months after the interview, and the visa officers' who didn't even do off my husband's file until it was escalated from the IRCC Call Centre because they refused to tell my MP's office why we were still waiting 2-1/2 months after the interview - but the Minister is only concerned with credibility issues about my husband. What a joke!
I have never seen a case as messed up as ours on CanLii, although I haven't read them all. I know they will just say we are lying about the visa officer accusing my husband of getting his friend to make up his insurance, but I put that complaint into my MP's office before we were refused which I think gives us credibility. Also, we had evidence to prove all their refusal reasons wrong in that "voluminous" amount of information that the Minster was too busy to read. I thought a case where the visa officer(s) looked obviously biased would be one they would want to keep out of court. Anyone can look that up and see how the Canadian government actually treats sponsors and applicants as opposed to the welcoming place they claim to be. Our lawyer says we have a very strong case to win the appeal, so we will continue to fight the good fight! Good luck to all still waiting for Justice!
