Concerns include officers skimming over files, making complex immigration decisions in minutes.
Immigration professionals and people applying to enter Canada say they’re increasingly getting refusal letters they think don’t make sense — leading them to wonder whether their cases are being fully and properly reviewed by a human being.
Toronto immigration lawyer Mario Bellissimo began to have concerns after seeing multiple examples, such as a case he worked on where the officer refused an application on the grounds that no birth certificate was included, even though he says a copy of the birth certificate was attached to the application.
“It worries me as an applicant and as a lawyer for an applicant: what is actually being looked at?” Bellissimo told CBC News.
Immigration professionals like Bellissimo are pointing to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s use of computer-assisted decision-making technology as the problem.
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/immigration-canada-ircc-technology-1.7632130
