Mikhail Lennikov and Hadayt Nazami

application: The court decision, publicly released on Dec. 22, directs the application be reviewed by a different immigration officer, according to CTV. His lawyer, Hadayt Nazami, said he hopes the order will be returned in Lennikov favour now that the political climate has shifted with the replacement of the Conservative government. "Basically all the doors were shut, completely shut. Mikhail Lennikov, 55, voluntarily left six years of church sanctuary in Vancouver just months before a Federal Court overturned his failed application for permanent residence on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. And now you can see a door opening slightly and that significant," Nazami said of the decision. Lennikov claimed refuge in Vancouver First Lutheran Church in June 2009, but departed on his own accord last August after negotiations with the Canada Border Services Agency. He said if there are no "systemic biases" or an "invisible will" to influence the decision, then there no reason immigration officers should feel prevented from deciding his client case. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.