Daneshmand v. Canada (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship)

Decided: 2026-10-26. Docket: IMM-4080-25. Citation: 2026 FC 1311 (CanLII). Administrative law — Judicial review — Reasonableness — Vavilov framework — Whether reasons show justification, intelligibility and transparency — Culture of justification in high-volume visa decision-making — Reasons must permit understanding of refusal and rational chain of analysis — Application granted | Procedure — Procedural fairness — Duty to respond — TRV reconsideration — Whether Officer had to alert Applicant to concerns about provenance of lump sum deposits — Low-end procedural fairness for temporary visas — Concerns treated as sufficiency of evidence not credibility — No breach of procedural fairness found | Citizenship and immigration — Temporary resident visa — IRPR, subs. 179(b) — Whether Officer reas