New Citizenship Material!
Surely Canada might want to take a look at a three-strikes-and-you're-out conclusion to some quite egregiously serious attempts to hoodwink Immigration Canada into accepting individuals who are neither a credit to themselves nor to any country they plan to emigrate to. One case in point is that of Nasoh Raslan, who thought it expedient to lie to a citizenship judge in a blatant manner thinking it would accelerate his ploy for Canadian citizenship.
It wasn't the devil that made him do it, evidently but an immigration consultant, he claims, whose advice he sought, and who informed him that his application for citizenship would be processed far more expeditiously if he lied about his residency. So that instead of indicating in his application his true place of residence, which was Montreal, he claimed residency in Toronto. Well, big deal, right? A little white lie; what difference does it make, after all?
Anyone is free to live in Montreal or in Mississauga if they prefer. Mind, bureaucrats are kind of sticklers for process and legitimacy and correct data, that kind of inconvenient stuff. And some of them are sufficiently alert to applicants' little devious tricks that erupt from time to time, to take especial note of inconsistencies, and then, boy, you're screwed. So if your business trips you up and reveals you as an unethical trickster, forget it, eh?
A citizenship officer took note that Mr. Raslan had written down two different apartment numbers for the same Elm Street address on two separate documents. Sloppy work. Particularly when, on further investigation it was revealed that Mr. Raslan's home telephone number had already been made use of by no fewer than 62 other citizenship applicants, and that 127 other applicants had used his mailing address. For which address he had a lease agreement.
Mail order line-ups, express check-ins, kind of thing. How much, one can only wonder, did this sharp mind charge for the use of his phone number and address? What kind of scam artist lies concealed in the persona of an innocent immigrant eagerly attempting to avail himself of Canadian citizenship? Not once, not twice, but three times. And three times rejected. Does that not tell us something?
A Federal Court has brought down a ruling denying citizenship to Mr. Raslan, poor man. Judge Francois Lemieux dismissed Mr. Raslan's appeal of the ruling that has denied him full status within Canada. On the basis that the man "knowingly and willingly embarked on a course of conduct to deceive the Citizenship Court concerning his true residence in Canada - and this for the purpose of jumping the queue". Just that?
Tsk, tsk. One question remains, why is he permitted to retain permanent resident status? Does Canada really need to avail itself of this particular type of entrepreneurship?
It wasn't the devil that made him do it, evidently but an immigration consultant, he claims, whose advice he sought, and who informed him that his application for citizenship would be processed far more expeditiously if he lied about his residency. So that instead of indicating in his application his true place of residence, which was Montreal, he claimed residency in Toronto. Well, big deal, right? A little white lie; what difference does it make, after all?
Anyone is free to live in Montreal or in Mississauga if they prefer. Mind, bureaucrats are kind of sticklers for process and legitimacy and correct data, that kind of inconvenient stuff. And some of them are sufficiently alert to applicants' little devious tricks that erupt from time to time, to take especial note of inconsistencies, and then, boy, you're screwed. So if your business trips you up and reveals you as an unethical trickster, forget it, eh?
A citizenship officer took note that Mr. Raslan had written down two different apartment numbers for the same Elm Street address on two separate documents. Sloppy work. Particularly when, on further investigation it was revealed that Mr. Raslan's home telephone number had already been made use of by no fewer than 62 other citizenship applicants, and that 127 other applicants had used his mailing address. For which address he had a lease agreement.
Mail order line-ups, express check-ins, kind of thing. How much, one can only wonder, did this sharp mind charge for the use of his phone number and address? What kind of scam artist lies concealed in the persona of an innocent immigrant eagerly attempting to avail himself of Canadian citizenship? Not once, not twice, but three times. And three times rejected. Does that not tell us something?
A Federal Court has brought down a ruling denying citizenship to Mr. Raslan, poor man. Judge Francois Lemieux dismissed Mr. Raslan's appeal of the ruling that has denied him full status within Canada. On the basis that the man "knowingly and willingly embarked on a course of conduct to deceive the Citizenship Court concerning his true residence in Canada - and this for the purpose of jumping the queue". Just that?
Tsk, tsk. One question remains, why is he permitted to retain permanent resident status? Does Canada really need to avail itself of this particular type of entrepreneurship?
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