Citizenship Immigration Canada Moving and Karen Kwan Anderson

: 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 Hamilton Spectator. 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. "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. "Email could be efficient and fast in sending information, but there the black hole of email where it just disappeared. 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. Over-reliance on technology can be dangerous." The first court cases centred on lost emails came at least as early as 2010, said Anderson, who has encountered situations in her own practice where she and her clients "didn't receive email requests for further information, or received email for someone else." The applicant in this case, Dharmendrakumar Chandrakantbhai Patel, applied for immigration to Canada in June 2010 as a computer and information systems manager. However, Patel, who declined to be interviewed for this story, said neither he nor his lawyer ever received the email. In February 2014, immigration officials refused his application on the grounds that he "had not supplied any of the documents allegedly requested on August 20, 2013." Rakesh Goel, a program assistant at the High Commission of Canada in New Delhi, claimed to have sent the emailed request for updated application forms and police clearances on that day, and to have given the applicant 45 days to respond. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.