Julia Yakobi: Yakobi and Travel Document

julia yakobi: Yakobi travelled to Moscow in July with an expired permanent residency card, a move that Citizenship and Immigration Canada allows but does not recommend, according to Hamilton Spectator. Yakobi applied for a travel document that would allow her to return to Canada, but was both denied the document and told she did not meet the criteria for permanent residency days before her scheduled flight home. Julia Yakobi says the Aug. 11 decision has left her stranded in her native country without means of returning to the country she now considers home. She says tax returns, cellphone records and residential rental agreements show that she has lived in Canada for years, but CIC rejection letter said she had only spent 65 days in Canada since 2011 and therefore fell short of the ministry residency requirements. The ministry says Yakobi became a permanent resident in 2003 and has been issued two permanent residency cards and three travel documents since. Yakobi says CIC has refused to even look at her supporting documentation and insists she must go through a lengthy appeal process to resolve what she believes to be a simple administrative error. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.