Citizenship Immigration Canada and Nigel Frater

permanent resident: He was also sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to submit a DNA sample, according to The Waterloo Record. Frater launched the appeal after receiving a letter from Citizenship and Immigration Canada that said he was potentially inadmissible as a permanent resident because he had been convicted of an offence with a jail sentence of more than six months. Court documents show Nigel Frater pleaded guilty last year to assault and two counts of breach of probation and was sentenced to six months in jail, which he had already served while awaiting trial. The three-judge appeal panel says it wasn't known at the time of sentencing that the penalty imposed would have a "potentially devastating immigration consequence" for Frater, a Jamaican citizen and permanent resident of Canada. They say prosecutors did not object to the request, and found the revised sentence to be "within the acceptable range for this offence and offender." Court documents show Frater, 53, immigrated to Canada in 1989 and has lived here ever since. As a result, the judges have agreed to reduce his sentence to six months less a day. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.