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Help! criminality question for immigration

Jun 5, 2010
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Hello, I hope some can help me with this :)

I am a Canadian citizen and last week I have sent off my sponsorship application for my fiancés - permanent residence from within Canada (spouse or common-law partner in Canada class). He is American.

Yesterday, my fiancé received a phone call from a police officer over an incident that happened while he was playing basketball a month ago. He had got in an altercation with another basketball player and slapt him while playing basketball at a local rec center. He had no idea the incident was forwarded to police. We both know that his actions were very stupid and he truly regrets it. The rec center however has the incident on camera and contacted police. The man he got in to the altercation with is not pressing charges, however, I believe the rec center is.

The police officer has asked him to come in next Friday where he will get finger printed and given a court date. Before we go to the police station, my fiancé and I were going to go the rec center and beg them to not press charges. We plan on telling them that he will volunteer and write apology letter ect for his actions. I am also 8 months pregnant and am extremely stressed about all of this and so afraid our application will be denied.

My question is, what do I do now to inform immigration what has happened. Depending on the out come of our meeting with the rec center, will we have to include all the details etc. What does someone do in this situation?

Note: He has also gone to court last year over another fight during a basketball game where he was found innocent. I have included all this information and evidence he was found innocent in our application. Will they think he is a loose cannon and therefore not accept his application?
 
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iarblue

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Put yourself in immigrations shoes would you?If the app is already in then let it be.If they want information about this they will contact you for sure.You can still go to the rec center to see if he can get the charges dropped,if he volunteers and writes an appology.And maybe your fiance should not play basketball for a bit.lol
 
Jun 5, 2010
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I know :( this whole process is so stressful. We have discussed and implemented a basketball "time out" though so this wont happen again... FML lol
 
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iarblue

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Too funny a basketball time out! Well i guess you just have to wait to see, but the ap is in so let it be for now.If it shows up in the criminal checks they will see the date is after you applied and then they will take it form there.
If it was me and only if it was me you can make your own judgement i wouldnt say anything.If i was just doing the ap yes but since its already in no.
But its totally up to you.
 

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you should do your best to avoid the charge if he has already been charged not to be convicted, these situations need to be reported to immigration, they will come up during their search and the fact that immigration wasn't advised will mean misrepresentation and make him inadmissable....you need to be very careful!