Immigration: Canadian Residency

Foreign Nationals Dept: Sharryn Aiken, an immigration and refugee law expert at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., said the case involving Belhassen Trabelsi, whose family has been living in a swanky hotel near Montreal, is not as simple as revoking his permanent residency and kicking him out of Canada, according to Calgary Herald. "This could be very drawn out," Aiken said. "Permanent residents have more rights than what are called foreign nationals to challenge removal decisions and that's understandable because once someone is given resident status, there's a sense that there's an attachment to the country. The removal procedure for a permanent resident is not necessarily expedited, put it that way." Despite reports that the brother-in-law of Tunisia's former dictator was stripped of his Canadian residency Thursday, one legal expert says it may be a while before he is removed from the country. Media reports Thursday said Trabelsi had his Canadian residency revoked. As reported in the news.
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