University of British Columbia and Mikhail Lennikov

Communist Party: He came to Canada with his family on a student visa in 1997 to pursue graduate studies at the University of British Columbia and applied for permanent residency with his wife and son two years later, according to Toronto Star. His application was denied because he is deemed inadmissible to Canada due to his work for the now defunct Soviet security and intelligence agency. Mikhail Lennikov, 55, joined the youth division of the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union in 1974 and worked for the KGB after he graduated from university in 1982 until 1988. In 2009, Lennikov took refuge in the First Lutheran Church in Vancouver after then-Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan refused to grant him relief from the inadmissibility finding. However, his departure did not stop him from appealing the minister decision to the Federal Court of Canada. His humanitarian and compassionate application for permanent residence was subsequently rejected, and he voluntarily left Canada for Russia in early 2015 after six years in church sanctuary. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.