Inadmissibility to Canada is classified into two categories:

• Refusing admission to Canada: Refusing a visa due to a criminal conviction, medical condition, misrepresentation, or security risk
• Affecting a PR application: Preventing an individual from acquiring (or retaining) Permanent Residence status as a result of a criminal conviction, medical malpractice, misrepresentation, or failing to comply with a residency obligation.

Individuals may be declared ineligible for one of the following reasons:

• Inadmissibility on a criminal basis
• Inadmissibility on medical grounds
• Misrepresentation
• Obligation to Reside
• Criminal Organizations (or ties to it)
• Threat to Security
• Committed abuses of human or international rights

Overcoming Inadmissibility

• Criminal Inadmissibility: Deemed Rehabilitation (more than ten years have passed and only one non-serious criminal crime has occurred), Criminal Rehabilitation (more than five years have passed), TRP (temporary waiver to be granted along with a visitor visa, study permit, or work permit for if an individual that is not eligible for the other two).
• Responding to a Procedural Fairness Letter (before to getting a 5-year ban) or filing a Judicial Review within 15 days (for applicants residing in Canada) or 60 days (for applicants residing outside of Canada) after receiving a 5-year ban.
• Medical Inadmissibility: Following the submission of a PR application and medical examination, IRCC will issue a Procedural Fairness Letter (PFL) to which a compelling answer must be made in order to overcome the inadmissibility. Nothing can be done until the PFL letter is received.)
• Medical Inadmissibility on a TRV visitor visa or Super Visa: Reapply with the assistance of an immigration lawyer or apply for a TRP, depending on the circumstances.
Our Immigration Consultants can assist you with your issue of inadmissibility.