Onyeje v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Decided: 2026-10-22. Docket: IMM-10732-25. Citation: 2026 FC 1292 (CanLII). Citizenship and immigration — Refugee protection — Judicial review — Application for judicial review of RAD decision confirming claimant is neither a Convention refugee nor a person in need of protection under IRPA, ss. 96 and 97 — Whether unchallenged adverse credibility findings independently support dismissal — Credibility findings dispositive — Application dismissed | Administrative law — Procedural fairness — Oral hearing — Whether the RAD breached procedural fairness by refusing an oral hearing under IRPA, s. 110 — Statutory framework in IRPA, subs. 110(3), (4) and (6) applied — No admissible new evidence, hearing neither required nor possible — Application dismissed | Evidence — New evidence on appeal — IRPA