Correspondence and Immigration Refugee Citizenship Canada

applicants: Failing to respond to officials’ requests as a result of missing email can be detrimental to applicants’ immigration prospects; failing to prove that the correspondence had been sent and received can open the federal government to lawsuits, according to Toronto Star. Email communication with applicants is efficient, cost effective, and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and is increasingly becoming the method of communication of choice for applicants, said the five-page guidelines published Friday. As Immigration Refugee Citizenship Canada moved toward paper-less electronic processing, the reliability of the email correspondence between applicants and officials has become a growing concern in the Internet age. Once the Minister of IRCC proves that the email correspondence was sent to the most up-to-date email address provided by the applicant, the applicant bears the risk involved in a failure to receive the email correspondence. The new guidelines provide safeguards and more precise instructions to officers to save records. Toronto immigration lawyer Karen Kwan Anderson, whose client from India was awarded $3,000 over a lost email last year, welcomed the move but is cautiously optimistic. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.