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Citizenship Immigration Canada Moving

: In granting the appeal in the man favour, the court ruled that the responsibility of ensuring the delivery and receipt of immigration correspondence falls squarely on the sender and recipient, and laid out the conditions whereby one party should be held accountable for the lost email, according to Toronto Star. With Citizenship and Immigration Canada moving toward paperless online applications, an increasing number of cases seem to be cropping up in which lost communication led to applicants being rejected . In the Indian man case, the court found there had been a breach of procedural fairness in turning him down because he hadn’t responded to an email he never received. Canada federal court has awarded a prospective immigrant from India $3,000 — and a second shot at coming here — over a failed email communication on the part of Immigration Canada. The judge just asked both parties, ‘Where the email ’ And there was nothing, said lawyer Karen Kwan Anderson, who asked the court to review the rejection of her client application under the skilled workers program. Over-reliance on technology can be dangerous. Email could be efficient and fast in sending information, but there the black hole of email where it just disappeared. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.