OMG. Not good. We just got a refusal letter. I have 30 days to make an appeal. Pleeeeeasssse....does anyone have experience with appeals??? Any similar situations??
Application was received in Jan 10, 2017. No change in ECAS/MyCIC since Feb. Sent some supporting docs in September (2017 travel docs/pics). Sent an email to the Minister of Immigration a couple weeks ago like many others. And now this refusal letter. My husband was denied a visitor visa in early 2016 because of concern about some documents. Now they're telling us he is admissible for 5 years, but I didn't realize that was the case when they sent us his visitor visa refusal letter.
The relevant part of his letter reads:
You applied at this office for a Temporary Resident Visa on 15 March 2016. After being offered a fair opportunity to respond to information that indicated you had misrepresented relevant information in your application, you were found to be inadmissible for misrepresentation under Paragraph A40(2)(a) of the Act on 26 April 2016.
As a result, you were rendered inadmissible to Canada for a period of five years from that date. Thus, you are inadmissible in any category until 16 June 2022 and your application is refused.
A letter came to me also, along with a NOTICE OF APPEAL form. Relevant sections from the letter:
Subsection 63(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act allows a person who has filed in the prescribed
manner an application to sponsor a foreign national as a member of the family class to appeal to the
Immigration Appeal Board against a decision not to issue the foreign national a permanent resident visa.
If the Appeal Division finds that an applicant is not a member of the family class, and/or that the sponsor is not a
sponsor within the meaning of the Regulations, the Appeal Division will only have jurisdiction to consider the
appeal under subsections 67(1)(a) and (b), that read:
67(1) To allow an appeal, the Immigration Appeal Division must be satisfied that, at the time the appeal
is disposed of,
(a) the decision appealed is wrong in law or fact or mixed law and fact;
(b) a principle of natural justice has not been observed(…)
If you decide to appeal this decision, you may commence an appeal by completing and submitting a
Notice of Appeal to one of the addresses on the enclosure entitled Important Instructions.
You must attach a copy of this letter and a copy of the refusal letter with your Notice of Appeal. The completed
form and a copy of this letter must be received at the office responsible for the province where you live within 30
days from the date you receive this letter.
PLEASE HELPPPPPP!!!!
