New hearing for family from China seeking refugee status in Canada over crimes against them in Guyana

A Chinese family who fled Guyana two years ago and have attempted to gain refugee status in Canada on the basis of being targeted by bandits purely because of their ethnicity was late last month granted a reprieve when a Federal Court ruled that the initial denial of their application be reviewed.

In his December 20, 2016, judgement Justice Richard Bell found that the decision made by the Refugee Appeal Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board (RAD) against Jieling Cao and her spouse Jianrong Ye, and their minor child, was “unreasonable in that it lacks justification, transparency and intelligibility.”