Successful JR on a Parent Grandparent Refusal on an Incomplete Resume
Consent by our lovely colleagues at the DoJ on a parent/grandparent refusal (an “incomplete” resume -with a gap some 45 years ago). The client had submitted a reconsideration with no luck. Thankfully the client had documented their efforts which allowed us to put together a complete record for the Court.
We filed a JR against both the initial decision and the decision not to reconsider. We later sought to consolidate. Excellent work by the team (and our articling student, soon to be called to the bar) on this -we did rely on Justice Battista’s decision in Devgon v. Canada 2025 FC 2005.
It would have been ideal if IRCC would employ some common sense and an empathetic eye towards such applications/requests to reconsider. The CV request strange -it basically replicates the information sought in the forms and one could argue it’s just another (engineered) point of failure by applicants (who are told in no uncertain terms that they don’t need any third party representative to present their applications). Form should never take precedence over fairness. The Court is backlogged as it is and seeking after the fact justice is a little like using a hammer to kill a mosquito.
Better first line decision making and fulsome discretion to reconsider will have multiplicative and manifold salutary benefits both for the Court and for applicants