International Students Making Refugee Claims: How Data + Chinook Might Meet
As a recent tweet from Steven Meurrens shows, the relationship between refugee claimants and international students is one that IRCC actively tracks. Number of Asylum Claims Made By Applicants with Study Permits from 2018 to 2022, Broken Down by Designated Learning Institution Chart shows schools with most claims in absolute numbers. Full data set can […]
[VIB x HLO] 2023 Federal Court Year in Review (non-IRB Immigration cases) + Policy Insights
I have been reading some very excellent ‘year in reviews’ this year in various spaces across the law. These are fantastic for getting a snapshot on where things have been in an area of law and where things are going. I would like to humbly add my submission, via a paper I wrote for the […]
A Window into the Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds Judicial Review Outcomes 2018 – 2022
As we posted about in this blog below, we have received a recent data set from IRCC that appears to be first of its kind in tracking litigation at the Federal Court. An Early “Lens” Into Predicting JR Outcomes by Country of Citizenship Today I am going to look at Humantiarian and Compassionate Grounds applications […]
Why the 30-Year Old Florea Presumption Should Be Retired in Face of Automated Decision Making in Canadian Immigration
In the recent Federal Court decision of Hassani v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2023 FC 734, Justice Gascon writes a paragraph that I thought would be an excellent starting point for a blog. Not only does it capture the state of administrative decision-making in immigration and highlight some of the foundational pieces, but also I want to […]
Could the Federal Court Have Avoided the Chinook Abuse of Court Process Tetralogy?
What Happened? In the recent decision of [1] Ardestani v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) 2023 FC 874, part of a tetrology of cases where Federal Court justices were critical over attacks on IRCC’s Chinook system, Justice Aylen did not mince words. She writes: II. Preliminary Issue [8] At the commencement of the hearing, counsel for the Applicant advised that […]
The Problem with Khaleel: Extrinsic Evidence Versus Applying Local Knowledge
In this post, I am going to do a gentle critique of a Federal Court decision from last year Khaleel v. Canada (MCI) 2022 FC 1385 and highlight the case as an example of the Court showing too much deference to an Officer’s application of local knowledge, without scrutinizing the reasonableness of the evidentary foundation. […]
Guide de politique sur le soutien automatisé à la prise de décision version de 2021/Policy Playbook on Automated Support for Decision-making 2021 edition (Bilingual)
Hi Folks: I wanted to share a copy of IRCC’s Policy Playbook on Automated Support for Decision-making. We learned from ATIP that even though there is language around the need to frequently update this document to adopt to the changing times and applications of automation and AI, it has not been updated since February 2021. […]
