Yakobi Daughter: Yakobi and Travel Document

yakobi daughter: Yakobi attributed the mistake to a clerical error and said she had documents to back up her claim, but said the government refused to let her present them, according to Brandon Sun. The family now says that CIC has agreed to reopen the file and give Yakobi 30 days to present her documents. Julia Yakobi had her request for a travel document denied and her status revoked last month after Citizenship and Immigration Canada concluded she had not spent long enough in Canada over the past five years.CIC said she had been in the country for 65 days over the past five years, while Yakobi says she has lived in Toronto continuously since 2014. Yakobi daughter says the news is welcome for the entire family."We are very grateful for this response," Hannah Yakobi said in an email. " really hope to have this error rectified soon, so that mom can return home to Toronto to be with her family and continue living her life as before."Yakobi travelled to Moscow to seek medical advice in July with an expired permanent residency card, a move that Citizenship and Immigration Canada allows but does not recommend. She and her family concede that travelling with out-of-date documentation was unwise, but CIC own guidelines make such arrangements possible."If you have been in Canada at least once during the past 365 days, you are entitled to a travel document to enable your return to Canada," reads a letter in which Yakobi request for such a document is declined based on residency requirements.CIC guidelines state that a person must spend at least 730 days in Canada during the five years prior to applying for a travel document. She 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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.