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Date: 20040331

Docket: A-308-03

Citation: 2004 FCA 143

CORAM:        DÉCARY J.A.

EVANS J.A.

PELLETIER J.A.

BETWEEN:

                                                         LAI SHEUNG EVA LEE

                                                                                                                                            Appellant

                                                                           and

                           THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION

Respondent

                                          Heard at Toronto, Ontario, on March 31, 2004.

                    Judgment delivered from the Bench at Toronto, Ontario, on March 31, 2004.

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:                                                  DÉCARY J.A.


Date: 20040331

Docket: A-308-03

Citation: 2004 FCA 143

CORAM:        DÉCARY J.A.

EVANS J.A.

PELLETIER J.A.

BETWEEN:

LAI SHEUNG EVA LEE

                                                                                                                                            Appellant

                                                                           and

                           THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION

           Respondent

                                                    REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

(Delivered from the Bench at Toronto, Ontario, on March 31, 2004)

DÉCARY J.A.

[1]                We are in substantial agreement with the reasons for judgment of Madam Justice Layden-Stevenson reported at (2003) 30 Imm. L.R. (3d) 273 (F.C.T.D.).

[2]                The following certified question:

Where a visa officer refuses an application for permanent residence on redetermination, after a previous decision was set aside by the court, is the visa officer obliged to specifically state or set out the differences between the two decisions?

is answered in the negative.

[3]                The appeal is dismissed.                                                            

"Robert Décary"

                                                                                                      J.A.                     


                                     FEDERAL COURT

             Names of Counsel and Solicitors of Record

DOCKET:                  A-308-03

STYLE OF CAUSE: LAI SHEUNG EVA LEE

                                                           Applicant

and

MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION

                                                                                          Respondent

PLACE OF HEARING:                                 TORONTO, ONTARIO

DATE OF HEARING:                                   MARCH 31, 2004

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

OF THE COURT BY:                                    (DECARY, EVANS, PELLETIER JJ.A.).

DELIVERD FROM THE

BENCH BY:              DÈCARY J.A.               

APPEARANCES BY:                                    

Cecil Rotenberg           For the Applicant

Marissa Bielski             For the Respondent

SOLICITORS OF RECORD:                      

Cecil Rotenberg, Q.C.

Toronto, Ontario          For the Applicant

Morris Rosenberg                                             

Deputy Attorney General of Canada For the Respondent

               


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