Current situation of my girlfriends family as it stands.
Claimed refugee status in Feb 2018
Given hearing date of August 2018
Postponed hearing date until further notice
Family relocated within city, notified the immigrations office (We have evidence of this considering they mailed work permits and other documents to members of the family to the new house)
Januarary 2019 they sent a new hearing date for Feburary 2019 to the OLD ADDRESS.
Obviously you can see where this is going, essentially the claim was considered abandoned after they failed to show up to a hearing they were never notified of due to error on immigrations part. As a result, their claim was declared abandoned. Now we were brought into the CBSA’s office to discuss the matter, the officer had extended the families stay until November of 2019 however the family must return to the immigration/refugee office before that to see if the IRC will re open the case. Is it time to lawyer up before presenting the situation to the IRC? Can we appeal if they decide not to re open the “abandoned” cause and bring them to court? Thanks
Claimed refugee status in Feb 2018
Given hearing date of August 2018
Postponed hearing date until further notice
Family relocated within city, notified the immigrations office (We have evidence of this considering they mailed work permits and other documents to members of the family to the new house)
Januarary 2019 they sent a new hearing date for Feburary 2019 to the OLD ADDRESS.
Obviously you can see where this is going, essentially the claim was considered abandoned after they failed to show up to a hearing they were never notified of due to error on immigrations part. As a result, their claim was declared abandoned. Now we were brought into the CBSA’s office to discuss the matter, the officer had extended the families stay until November of 2019 however the family must return to the immigration/refugee office before that to see if the IRC will re open the case. Is it time to lawyer up before presenting the situation to the IRC? Can we appeal if they decide not to re open the “abandoned” cause and bring them to court? Thanks
