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Canada Immigration and Political Refugee

political refugee: Esfand and their eldest daughter fled the country as his dependents in 2006, according to CBC. She not accused of any crime. With them was her husband, a political refugee from Iran. Esfand mistake, it seems, was to visit her mother back in Iran. We came as a family so we should be a family," Esfand says. "We've built 100 per cent of our lives here." I didn't do anything wrong' The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration is fighting in Federal Court to take away Esfand right to stay in Canada under a process known as cessation. The Coquitlam, B.C., woman is one of dozens of people who claim that after years of building lives in Canada, their future is threatened by a 2012 change to Canada Immigration and Refugee Act aimed at catching bogus refugees. "They can't take apart my family. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.