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Sheryl Yutuc Perez and Department of Citizenship

Perez: She made the request because she has a young, Canadian-born daughter and felt it would be in the child best interest for both of them to remain in Canada, according to CBC. The immigration officer disagreed, saying Perez had failed to show her daughter would be negatively affected by forcing the two to return to her native Philippines and apply from there. Sheryl Yutuc Perez applied for permanent residency and asked, on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, if the Department of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism would waive its normal requirement that she leave Canada to make her application. Perez has lived in Nova Scotia for five years. The judge found the officer analysis failed to consider all the evidence. Failed to consider the evidence Perez appealed the officer decision to the federal court. "In the absence of getting reasons from the immigration department, we don't know whether the case was properly adjudicated," her lawyer, Lee Cohen said. "And by going to federal court in this matter, Miss Perez was able to get the reasons and we were able to see that the reasons were, indeed, substandard and so we pursued the federal court case." In a ruling released earlier this month, Justice James O'Reilly sided with Perez against the department. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.