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LCP PR Refusals Due to Non-Compliance

Filipiniana News –  November 2015 RHYME & REASON LCP PR Refusals Due to Non-Compliance Sadly, there appears to be a continuing trend of refusals of LCP permanent residence applications due to alleged non-compliance with instructions from Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) to provide further information or documentation. Just prior to the October Federal elections, the previous Conservative government announced that they were on track to meeting their target of eliminating the backlog of about 60,000 LCP permanent resident application within two years or  by end of 2016.   Juxtaposed with the increasing number of LCP PR application refusals, one could reasonably suspect that in CIC's haste to meet this target, procedural fairness efforts are being applied very strictly, if at all, to the detriment of hapless caregivers who have been waiting years for their PR applications to be finalized. .     I used to find it quite bizarre to learn of CIC refusals bas