Border Security, a new Canadian reality TV series, is actually an interesting show, as it follows Canada Border Security Agents working at our borders and airports. One of the more intriguing recent episodes followed an agent as she noticed something amiss with an x-ray of a box of cans of baby formula being shipped to [...]
How One Man’s Trip To His Sister’s Wedding In India Results In A Deportation Order
A Canadian immigrant who is on a work permit is stuck in an immigration nightmare after making two innocent mistakes resulting in being denied entry to Canada and then being issued a deportation order. Satvir Singh came to Canada in 2008 and has been working as a long-haul truck driver on a valid work permit [...]
Former BlackBerry Executive Deported From Canada After Firing
A former executive for Canadian company RIM (now known as BlackBerry), has allegedly been deported from Canada after being fired from his high-level position within the company for an outburst on an airplane. In 2011, George Campbell and vice president Paul Wilson were on a place from Toronto to Beijing and ended up having to be restrained on [...]
Toronto Becomes A Sanctuary City for Undocumented Immigrants
We recently blogged about how the City of Toronto was going to vote on whether undocumented immigrants in Toronto should be able to easily access vital services without fear of being detained or deported. Our own immigration lawyer Michael Niren was quoted by Yahoo News Canada on the subject. Well, Toronto city council voted on [...]
Saskatchewan Woman and Daughter Face Deportation From Canada
A woman in Saskatchewan and her daughter are facing deportation from Canada because her daughter has cerebral palsy. Eniko Reka Kincses and her daughter Boglarka are scheduled for deportation on January 30th. According to the Saskatchewan Star-Phoenix, Boglarka’s disability makes her ineligible to be a permanent resident of Canada because she would place an excessive [...]
Family Deported from Canada – Groups fear for their safety
A Mexican family whose father said he had been kidnapped and assaulted by the police in that country at least three times had their refugee claim denied in March of 2012, and were ordered to report to the airport in Montreal for deportation from Canada last week. The Reyes family arrived in Canada in 2008, [...]
Hefty Criminal Convictions Can Lead to Deportation from Canada
Canada Can’t Deport Criminal Because Iran Won’t Take Him Back A very interesting article was published on the National Post website this week, detailing the case of Ashkan Forsat, 26, originally from Iran. Forsat arrived in Canada when he was 10 years as a refugee with his family, who became permanent residents. But as he [...]
How Can Someone Born In Canada be Deported From Canada?
Canada offers birthright citizenship, as do many other countries in the world – including the United States. What birthright citizenship means is that anyone born on Canadian soil automatically becomes a Canadian citizen. But did you know, someone who has been born in Canada can still be deported? It’s a very rarely-used and little-known law [...]
Hell’s Angels declared criminal organization by IRB, deportations from Canada ensue
The Immigration and Refugee Board has officially declared the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club a criminal organization and at least four members have been deported from Canada – one of whom has been in Canada since 1979 but had never gotten their Canadian citizenship. Alejandro Chung, a native of Chile, was the most recently deported person [...]
False Accusation Results in Illegal Immigrant’s Arrest And Deportation
The Toronto Star published an amazing column this week detailing the ordeal of Brazilian immigrant Husteclaber Cardoso, and his subsequent deportation when his name was run by police after they were called to his door for absolutely nothing. Husteclaber Cardoso came to Canada in 1993 on a visitor visa, which expired. Upon the visa’s expiry, [...]
Senior Deported to the United States May Return to Canada
We recently blogged about an elderly American woman who was facing deportation despite being the only available care option for a Canadian Citizen. Nancy Inferrera, 73, left Canada because she was under a removal order and the Canadian Citizen, Mildred Sanford, 83, left with her. Inferrera’s permanent residency application had been denied, as was her [...]
Family deported from Canada may get second chance
We recently blogged about a petition that was started to bring a family back to Canada after they were deported from Canada. The Benhmuda family was deported to Libya after their refugee claim was denied in 2008. Two of the family’s younger sons were born in Canada, and the petition was started by one of [...]
Elderly American Woman faced deportation from Canada despite being only caregiver for Canadian
A pair of elderly women who have been friends for 30 years – one an American citizen and one a Canadian citizen – left Canada to go to the United States despite having no friends, family or place to stay there because the American woman was facing deportation from Canada. The friends – Canadian citizen [...]
Family Facing Deportation From Canada Four Times Gets To Stay
A family in Quebec has finally had their application to stay in Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds accepted, after facing deportation from Canadaat least four different times since last year. During the first three times there were issues at the airport, misplaced travel documents and one of the family members fell ill, while the [...]
Deportation from Canada for loitering? Say hello to Bill C-43.
Proposed legislation that is currently undergoing its introduction and first reading in parliament – sponsored by Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney – may see thousands of permanent residents deported from Canada for minor offences. The bill, Bill C-43 – Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act, an act to amend the Immigration and Refugee [...]
