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Relocating Refugees Marc Miller vs. the RoC September 16 2024 Interview on CBC

Stewart Sharma Harsanyi Immigration Lawyers · 2024 09 16 CBC Interview Relocating Refugees Loren McGinnis: A row over a specific part of our immigration system. On one side you have Alberta Premier Danielle Smith saying We cannot handle an influx of asylum seekers moving to the province. On the other, you have federal immigration Minister Marc Miller saying Alberta needs to do more. The disagreement stems from a possible federal plan to move asylum seekers out of Quebec and Ontario. In the middle of this, are people seeking asylum in the first place. To tell us more about them and their circumstances, we have Raj Sharma on the line. He's an immigration lawyer here in Calgary with Stewart Sharma Harsanyi. Good morning to you, Raj. Raj Sharma: Good morning, Loren. Loren McGinnis: So what circumstances make a person eligible to seek asylum and perhaps the circumstances that push them into that situation? Raj Sharma: A person is a refugee or considered a refugee or eligible to make a refugee claim if they have a well-founded fear of persecution due to one of the convention grounds, race, religion, political opinion, membership in a particular social group, or that there is a... Read more →

Borderlines Podcast -Discussing the Spousal Sponsorship Process from Interview to Rejection to Appeals before the IAD

I joined my friends Steven Meurrens and Deanna Okun-Nachoff late August to discuss the spousal/common-law partner sponsorship process and some of the challenges including the interview and dealing with refusals based on genuineness/intent. A lot is at stake in such applications/appeals and it is important for those attempting to navigate it to understand the pitfalls and hurdles that are at play. I hope that the discussion is of assistance to other counsel, those that are intending to go down this road and those that are on it. Steve Meurrens: We are joined again by Raj Sharma, who's been on the podcast several times, both to discuss marriage fraud, which is going to be a topic that we pick up again today. It was actually, I think episode three, many, many years ago that Raj was on. Raj Sharma: We are so young, Steve. Steve: We were so young. We had Peter still not as a judge. Deanna Okun-Nachoff: What about me, was I not young then? Steve: We recorded in our office. Raj Sharma: You're always young. Deanna. Steve: And then we add a series of episodes about the same person whose agency was refused, it went to fed court,... Read more →