Date: 20020822
Docket: IMM-14-01
Neutral citation: 2002 FCT 901
BETWEEN:
JASWANT SINGH CHINNA
Applicant
-and-
THE MINISTER OF
CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION
Respondent
(Delivered from the Bench at Toronto, Ontario,
on Thursday, August 22, 2002.)
[1] Mr. Mangat, in spite of your articulate argument, I am unable to find a breach of procedural fairness in this case. You argue that there was a failure of the visa officer and the applicant to understand each other. However, the visa officer offered the applicant the services of an interpreter on more than one occasion. He refused. I do not see what more she could have done. She could not force an interpreter on him. You have not provided me with any authority to the effect that a visa officer breaches rules of procedural fairness when there is a lack of communication between an applicant and a visa officer but where the visa officer offers the services of an interpreter and the applicant refuses. I must dismiss this judicial review.
"Marshall Rothstein"
Judge
Toronto, Ontario
August 22, 2002
FEDERAL COURT OF CANADA
Names of Counsel and Solicitors of Record
DOCKET: IMM-14-01
STYLE OF CAUSE: JASWANT SINGH CHINNA
Applicant
- and -
THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND
IMMIGRATION
Respondent
PLACE OF HEARING: TORONTO, ONTARIO
DATE OF HEARING: THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2002
REASONS FOR ORDER BY: ROTHSTEIN J.A.
DATED: THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2002
APPEARANCES BY: Mr. Jaswant Mangat
For the Applicant
Ms. Alexis Singer
For the Respondent
SOLICITORS OF RECORD: Jaswant Mangat
Mangat & Company
Barristers and Solicitors
7420 Airport Rd, Suite 202
Mississauga, Ontario
L4T 4E5
For the Applicant
Morris Rosenberg
Deputy Attorney General of Canada
For the Respondent
FEDERAL COURT OF CANADA
Date: 20020822
Docket: IMM-14-01
BETWEEN:
JASWANT SINGH CHINNA
Applicant
- and -
THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION
Respondent
REASONS FOR ORDER