Francis Ojo Ogunrinde: Immigration Officer

Immigration And Refugee Board Dept: Still, a senior immigration officer determined that Francis Ojo Ogunrinde who is seeking residency in Canada on the grounds that he'll be persecuted in his native Nigeria for his sexual orientation failed to provide sufficient evidence that he is gay, according to Montreal Gazette. Ogunrinde, 40, came to Canada in 2007 as a refugee claimant. In early 2010, the Immigration and Refugee Board rejected his claim for protection after concluding that he was not credible and not homosexual and he provided a letter from a Toronto community centre attesting to his participation in a Coming Out Being Out meeting, as well as a letter from a man who said the two were in a relationship. But now a federal judge has found that the officer erred by failing to consider the complete picture before her, and ordered that Ogunrinde's claim get a second look in a case that raises questions about the extent to which immigration officers should be probing the bedroom activities of claimants. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.