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For refugees, including refugees with PR status in Canada, travel to the home country poses more than a risk of losing status in Canada. Such travel creates a PRESUMPTION of reavailment of home country protection, and reavailment is grounds for cessation of protected person status. If there is a...

Note: I will refer to "misrepresentation" as constituting any false representation, fraud, or knowingly concealing material circumstances. Obviously, there will be risks involved traveling to somewhere your safety could be in danger. If your concern is specifically about the risk that your...

As I have observed elsewhere, if the applicant is short of meeting the physical presence requirement as of the date the application for citizenship is made, there is no chance (absent someone making a big mistake) that application will lead to citizenship. It must be denied. Unless the...

A qualified Canadian immigration lawyer is a far, far better source of information than this forum. Moreover, a lawyer can offer personal advice, that is advice particular to you and your situation rather than general suggestions. Any personal advice offered here should be approached with much...

Just keeping up . . . . . . Veerasingam v. Canada, 2024 FC 639, https://canlii.ca/t/k499r is another cessation decision published late last month upholding a cessation determination . . . . . . Wang v. Canada, 2024 FC 632, https://canlii.ca/t/k48ft in contrast sets aside the RPD's cessation...

More process-oriented context . . . at the risk of rabbit-hole ruminations . . . oh so weedy . . . As I noted, I intend to further discuss the "business trip" aspect in...

The reference to Steven Meurrens is much appreciated totally apart from the link being a source that concurs in what I have been rather emphatic about in this forum for many years now, that the label "business trip" is not what matters; as I said in this very thread three years ago, above: The...

Wallowing into the weeds . . . "Why are the consent boxes even part of a PR Card renewal?" Without trying to interpret why you ask this question: Why would 'why' matter? Or, How would 'why' matter? Among other variations of asking (humorous gibes included, even slippery ones): does the...

There is nothing new at CanLII re the constitutional challenge . . . and I have not seen any reporting or decision in regards to the hearing scheduled for early April. Remember that in regards to the Gnanapragasam case itself (last published decision in that case is here: Gnanapragasam v...

Of course the first order of business, the first step in doing the homework needed to make a PR TD application relying on H&C relief for a breach of the RO, is the guide for making a PR TD application and the appendix discussing the Residency Obligation, which is here...

"What do you think I should do in my case?" Even if you shared many, many more facts about yourself, your immigration history, details about your work and address history, NO ONE in a forum like this can offer anything close to reliable personal advice about what YOU should do. An immigration...

What @scylla said . . . . . . or, stated somewhat differently: In this case, the Canada v. Sardar, 2024 FC 647, https://canlii.ca/t/k4b1b case, the PR-refugee won the case before the RPD, where the government's application for cessation was denied. That is, this refugee got a NO-cessation...

Update appreciated. What appears to have been a decision to not pursue cessation despite a trip to the home country is a good sign that the Canadian government is approaching the cessation issue deliberatively, looking at the particular circumstances and reasons for the trip in the individual...

Relative to IRCC processing generally, two to four months is NOT long, and actually a lot faster than many other applications are processed. Additionally, IRCC does not approach PR card applications as at all urgent. A PR does not need to have a valid PR card to maintain their status as a PR. A...

Main thing is to read the guide for making a PR card application here: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/application-forms-guides/guide-5445-applying-permanent-resident-card-card-first-application-replacement-renewal-change-gender-identifier.html...

There is not much news in this decision: Celvanayaham v. Canada, 2024 FC 621, https://canlii.ca/t/k47f0 There is one paragraph nonetheless which sums up the fulcrum of reavailment: [29] There is a strong presumption of an intention to reavail when refugees return to their country of...

Further Observations & Explanation: One of the requirements for a grant of citizenship is compliance with Canada's tax filing laws for at least three of the previous five tax years (as of the date the application for citizenship is made). If you are already familiar with this, that probably...

When asking questions about immigration and citizenship applications in Canada, it is really important to have looked at the application form and the instructions. Many questions are answered by just doing that. If you have not looked at IRCC's online information regarding applying for...

This will go long, as too often my posts tend to go. For you in particular, @ParulB, some of my comments may seen critical, perhaps even harsh. Sorry, but you deserve to see what you might be up against, what you may need to deal with, and thus a chance to approach this more realistically. I...

I meant no disapproval at all, but rather an acknowledgement that your query was indeed suggestive of (loaded with) a lot of what-ifs, if-this-then-that but if-that-then-this, and so on, and not just casually alluding to abstract hypotheticals, but real issues . . . . . . or as I said, borrowing...