Is a visa officer permitted to refuse to grant an immigrant visa to an applicant based on units of assessment?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Alam v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2004 FC 182 (CanLII):
A visa officer is given broad discretion under paragraph 11(3)(b) not to award an immigrant visa, even though a candidate may have met the threshold in terms of units of assessment. (Covrig v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 104 F.T.R. 41). However, this discretion is not unlimited: only those factors that go to the ability of the applicant to become established in an economic sense are permissible considerations. (Chen v. Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration), [1991] 3 F.C. 350 (T.D.))
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