Alberta Court Of Appeal: Immigrant Status

Supreme Court Dept: Currently, permanent residents convicted of a crime and jailed for two years or more lose their immigrant status and face removals from Canada with no access to appeal, according to The Star. On Friday the Supreme Court will look at the case of Hoang Anh Pham, whose two-year jail sentence was upheld by the Alberta Court of Appeal, despite the Crown s consent to reduce the time in light of the Toronto man s immigrant status and the Supreme Court of Canada will be asked Friday to decide if courts should take into account an offender s immigration status when handing out a sentence. Although prosecutors and defence lawyers often bring up the issue at sentencing, courts are not obliged to take it into consideration. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.