Misrepresentation - Removal Order Appeal

My client, a well educated and skilled individual, applied for permanent residence to Canada many years ago, in 2010. He was single at the time he applied to come to Canada. Time passed and he proposed marriage to his girlfriend. Later that same month he received his PR visa. The couple decided to marry and my client decided to sponsor his wife to Canada once he got a place and a job in Canada. They married about a month prior to his landing in Canada. He didn't disclose his marriage; he thought it would be self-evident when he submitted a sponsorship for his wife later. He put in an application to sponsor her later that year. It was then he started to learn of the heavy consequences of failing to disclose a family member at or prior to landing. He retained a lawyer who inexplicably filed a Notice to Appeal against the refusal to grant his bride a PR visa (there is no appeal as the IAD only has jurisdiction over members of the family class -s.117(9)(d) of the IRPR precludes individuals from same). The IAD dismissed the appeal. The client then did what he ought to have done -file... Read more →