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Judicial review allowed; visa officer's credibility findings were based on an impermissibly microscopic analysis.
The applicant applied for permanent residence outside Canada under the convention refugee abroad class, claiming he fled national military service in Eritrea.
A visa officer refused the application based on adverse credibility findings stemming from inconsistencies and implausibilities in his narrative, as well as a lack of subjective fear.
On judicial review, the Federal Court found the officer's credibility analysis was overly microscopic and reliant on insignificant discrepancies, rendering the decision unreasonable.
The application for judicial review was allowed and the matter remitted for redetermination.
Inadmissibility for smuggling requires organized transnational crime and material benefit.
Consolidated immigration appeals considered whether inadmissibility for people smuggling under s. 37(1)(b) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act captures all assistance to undocumented migrants or is limited by organized transnational criminality and material benefit.
The Court held the provision applies only where conduct furthers illegal entry for direct or indirect financial or other material benefit in the context of transnational organized crime.
Humanitarian and mutual aid, including assistance among asylum-seekers in collective flight to safety, does not itself constitute people smuggling under this provision.
The prior inadmissibility determinations were based on an unreasonable statutory interpretation and were remitted for reconsideration on the proper legal test.
