CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION
Status in Canada
Permanent Residents
Judicial review of immigration officer’s decision applicant not meeting requirements of Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations, SOR/2002-227, s. 4—S. 4 providing person not spouse, common‑law partner if marriage, partnership not genuine and entered into primarily for purpose of acquiring status, privilege under Act—S. 4 speaking in present tense for determination of genuineness of relationship and in past tense for assessing purpose for which created—Drafters may have thus left door open to marriages of convenience found to be sincere, enduring at time of assessment—But finding herein relationship not genuine not unreasonable.
Donkor v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (IMM‑654‑06, 2006 FC 1089, Mosley J., judgment dated 12/9/06, 5 pp.)