Singh v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)

Singh v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)
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Federal Court Decisions
Date
2001-04-27
Neutral citation
2001 FCT 395
File numbers
IMM-3786-00
Decision Content
Date: 20010427
Docket: IMM-3786-00
Neutral Citation: 2001 FCT 395
Between:
DAVINDER SINGH
Applicant
- and -
THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP
AND IMMIGRATION
Respondent
REASONS FOR ORDER
PINARD, J.:
[1] The applicant seeks judicial review of the decision of Cyril Joseph, a visa officer at the Canadian Consulate General in Buffalo, New York, dated July 11, 2000, refusing his application for permanent residence in Canada and determining that the applicant comes within the inadmissible class of persons described in paragraph 19(2)(d) of the Immigration Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-2.
[2] The applicant is a citizen of India. He submitted his application for permanent residence under the occupations of Paralegal (NOC #4211.1) and Lawyer (NOC #4112.0).
[3] On March 22, 2001, the applicant, who has been removed from Canada, wrote this Court to ask that this application be dealt with and disposed of in his absence "on the basis of the materials already placed on record."
[4] Under the circumstances, I am not prepared to grant the respondent's counsel's request that the application be dismissed on the sole ground that the applicant is not represented at the hearing. It is my understanding that counsel for the applicant agreed in open Court that if that request was to be denied, I could dispose of the substantive matter on the basis of the record. I have, therefore, reviewed the materials on record as requested by the applicant. In spite of the latter's detailed arguments in his Memorandum of Fact and Law, I am not satisfied that the visa officer committed any reviewable error.
[5] Consequently, the application for judicial review is dismissed.
JUDGE
OTTAWA, ONTARIO
April 27, 2001