Hello my step dad married my mom who is the sponsor applied in 2018. My step dad have had few minor crime charges back in his home country but none of them were severe crimes (pharmacy, almost crashed into someone which was an accident and no one got hurt and was charged also for something related to the pharmacy) all about 20 years ago. He then came to Canada and had another incident when he got into a verbal fight and hit the table of that person’s property but no one was injured and he got an restraining order but no charges. This was also around 2013. Now, he met my mom who was a PR and now a citizen and they got married in 2018 and applied for criminal rehabilitation and sponsorship for PR. Yesterday he got an email from IRCC that his application for criminal rehabilitation was refused which makes his PR app automatically refused with a 30 day to vountarily leave. At this point, we are pretty lost because we know that inland sponsorship cannot be appealed but we feel like getting refused for crimes that happened so long ago should have been rehabilitated. Its been so many years and my step father is a wonderful person who is trying to live a happy life with us. Our lawyer told us that they had a similar case where they took it to court and won the case but we’re out of options so we decided to go with that idea.
Now a side note, our previous immigrant consultant from Vancouver did apply for deemed rehabilitation which does not make sense since his offense was not just one. Could that be problem of the refusal?
Is there any similar situations? I just need some insights on what to do next. Thank you for reading this and comments are appreciated.
Now a side note, our previous immigrant consultant from Vancouver did apply for deemed rehabilitation which does not make sense since his offense was not just one. Could that be problem of the refusal?
Is there any similar situations? I just need some insights on what to do next. Thank you for reading this and comments are appreciated.
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