An American woman denied permanent residency in Canada due to convictions for impaired driving and drug possession has won another shot at staying here because the immigration officer who made the decision ignored “the best interests of her children and her experience as an Indigenous person.”
Indigenous U.S. woman with criminal past wins Canadian immigration appeal
The judge agreed that the immigration officer ‘was obliged to — and failed to — reasonably grapple with the systemic factors’ the woman faces as an Indigenous person
