A discussion about responding to procedural fairness letters with digressions on possible bias against people from Punjab, unreasonable documentation requests, tunnel vision amongst visa officers, how if an officer goes out looking for misrepresentation in an application they will probably find it, aggressively banning people from Canada as a deterrance policy, IRCC misleading Parliament about whether it bounces applications for incompleteness and more.Raj Sharma is a Partner at Stewart Sharma Harsanyi in Calgary. He can be found on Twitter @immlawyercanada2:30 When does IRCC have to send a procedural fairness letter vs. being able to refuse an application without one?15:00Specific issues with the Canadian visa offices in New Delhi and Chandigarh. 21:00Racialized assessments of visa applications. 23:00Why hunting for misrep can lead to misrep findings. 25:00Misrepresentation as a deterrence policy. 35:00Is there a specific focus on Punjabs? 44:00Can you tell if someone is lying as soon as you meet them at the start of an interview? 46:00Preet Bharara on investigations50:00When IRCC believes that a job is fake because no employer would wait as long as IRCC’s processing times to fill a position. 1:00Procedural fairness letters in the citizenship revocation process.1:06Litigation as a way to achieve policy reform. 1:15Procedural fairness and the bouncing of applications.

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