Recent content by dpenabill

Is the "expires in Dec 2025" date a typo? Should be Dec 2027 perhaps? Given landing (becoming a PR) date of Oct 2022. Assuming the PR card expires in late 2027, responses by others covers things. If your PR card expires in Dec 2025, something here is awry. By the way, if border officials, or...

Assuming you are asking how to terminate a lawsuit filed in the Federal Court (a legal action seeking leave and an order for a Writ of Mandamus) . . . Your lawyer can do this for you and should be the one to do it. If you filed a lawsuit in Federal Court without the assistance of a lawyer...

A Dealing-With-Lawyers Sidebar: I generally defer to lawyers who have been paid to review and analyze the particulars of a case. This is only in part because they are the ones with known experience, and very importantly, they should have a good knowledge of the law and practices, and to a large...

This update is appreciated, especially since it is one more anecdotal report which appears to confirm automated approval (assuming the application was approved and a card mailed, as reported) notwithstanding cutting-it-close, an application made with just a few days credit over the Residency...

One correction, a big correction: 30 days to appeal. Not 60. If an application for a PR TD is denied, the PR has 60 days to appeal that. When a Removal Order is issued (what many in this forum call being "reported"), the PR has just 30 days to make the appeal. Otherwise the responses by others...

I understand you are trying to be helpful in highlighting the extent to which some immigrants living in Quebec may encounter more scrutiny and procedural hurdles than those in other provinces, and why, and I do not mean to diminish or deny how this can increase certain risks. And that probably...

Non-Canadians (Foreign Nationals) do not have the mobility rights that the Charter prescribes for Canadians (that is for citizens and permanent residents) in Section 6(2) of the Charter. Once a person has PR status, that is once they are a Canadian (no longer a Foreign National), they do have...

The issue is not whether you stayed in Quebec but whether your staying in Quebec raises questions about whether you made a misrepresentation of intent when you were applying for PR, and if in the overall circumstances there is reason to conclude you did misrepresent your intent. As a PR, you...

A decision made likely means IRCC is prepared to deliver a new PR card to you. Question is whether a five year PR card will be mailed, or if you will be asked to pick up a new PR card in person. It is important to remember that a new PR card itself does not restart the RO compliance clock. So...

This is NOT funny. Not at all. If the RPD does not believe a statement of fact presented in the case (such as what the PR-refugee actually knows) and that is a factor in its decision, procedural fairness requires the PR-refugee be informed of this and given an opportunity to address it. Let's...

Sari c. Canada, 2025 CF 533, https://canlii.ca/t/kb62g In this case Justice Saint-Fleur dismissed a cessation appeal, a ruling which like so many others of late upholds what appears to be RPD's decision in which it states it considered the lack of subjective knowledge of the legal consequences...

Sorry it has come to this. Sorry, in particular, that your situation is well beyond the scope of what a forum like this can offer. I do not know what a lawyer can do but a good lawyer experienced in these cases is probably your best resource. I echo most of the observations posted by @armoured...

At the risk of getting sidetracked, but recognizing illustrative, contextual value . . . That's not really it . . . Despite being in the ballpark in terms of the gist of it, particularly as to a key complaint by lawyers in regards to the impact on judicial review (assuming you use "JR" to...

Automated decision making in processing PR card applications in particular: I did not take note of just when, precisely, IRCC began reporting PR card application processing times comparable to today's posted time, just 11 days, rather than the two plus months (60 plus days, and often months...

More Re Chinook . . . even though this topic is not really about Chinook . . . In so far as what I have read in this forum, some of which I refenced and quoted, I agree there is a lot of misunderstanding about Chinook and what it actually does. I disagree, however, it is merely end user...