IMMIGRATION SERVICES
Inadmissibility & Temporary Resident Permits
Refused entry or deemed inadmissible to Canada? There are legal solutions, and a lawyer who knows them.
Overcoming Inadmissibility to Canada
A criminal record, a past misrepresentation, or a medical condition can make you inadmissible to Canada, turned away at the border or refused before you ever travel. These cases are where legal representation matters most. As a Vancouver-based Canadian immigration lawyer, I help clients overcome inadmissibility through Temporary Resident Permits, criminal rehabilitation, and carefully prepared legal submissions.
Whether it’s a DUI, a misrepresentation ban, or a procedural fairness letter threatening your application, I’ll give you a clear assessment of your options and fight for your ability to enter and stay in Canada.
Your options
Three ways to overcome inadmissibility
Being inadmissible is rarely the end of the road, but the right response depends on why you’re inadmissible, when it happened, and how soon you need to enter Canada.
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Temporary Resident Permits
A discretionary permit that lets you enter despite inadmissibility when your reason to enter outweighs the risk, the practical route for urgent or planned travel, including DUI cases.
- TRPs for DUI & impaired driving
- Compelling-reason applications
- Port-of-entry strategy where justified
Fix it permanently
Criminal rehabilitation resolves criminal inadmissibility for good, available five years after the sentence ends. For older, less serious offences, deemed rehabilitation may already apply.
- Criminal rehabilitation applications
- Deemed rehabilitation assessments
- Record suspensions (Canadian convictions)
Other grounds
Misrepresentation findings, medical inadmissibility, financial grounds and prior removals each have their own consequences, and their own remedies, from responses to procedural fairness letters to appeals.
- Misrepresentation (5-year bans)
- Medical & financial inadmissibility
- Procedural fairness responses
Inadmissibility Services
Criminal Inadmissibility
- Temporary Resident Permits (TRP)
- Criminal rehabilitation applications
- Deemed rehabilitation assessments
- Legal opinion letters
- DUI & impaired driving entry issues
- DUI & impaired driving: TRPs and rehabilitation
Other Inadmissibility Issues
- Misrepresentation allegations & bans
- Medical inadmissibility
- Procedural fairness letter responses
- Authorization to Return to Canada (ARC)
- Border refusals & port-of-entry issues
- Restoration of status, the 90-day window
Act before you travel
What inadmissibility cases demand
These files are won with preparation and timing, and lost at the border. The fundamentals:
- An honest assessment first: are you actually inadmissible under Canadian law?
- Complete records, court documents, sentence completion, police certificates
- A documented, compelling reason for any TRP application
- Apply well before travel; a border refusal goes on your record
Good to know
Inadmissibility questions, answered
Since December 2018, a single impaired-driving conviction can make you criminally inadmissible as “serious criminality”. A TRP can authorize entry in the short term; criminal rehabilitation can fix it permanently. The dates of your offence and sentence decide the options, see entering Canada with a DUI.
A TRP is temporary permission to enter despite inadmissibility, discretionary, time-limited, tied to a compelling reason. Criminal rehabilitation is a permanent fix, available five years after your sentence ends. Many clients use both: a TRP now, rehabilitation as soon as they qualify.
A border refusal is recorded and will follow you, so the next attempt must be prepared: understand the exact ground of refusal, assemble the records, and apply for the right remedy in advance rather than presenting again unprepared.
Misrepresentation, even an honest mistake or an error by a representative, can bring a five-year ban and lasting credibility damage. If you receive a procedural fairness letter raising it, the response window is short and the stakes are high; get advice before replying.
Some conditions can, where treatment costs may exceed IRCC’s excessive-demand threshold, but exemptions and mitigation plans exist, and many assumptions people make about medical inadmissibility are outdated. It’s worth assessing before you assume the worst.
Denied entry? Let’s fix it.
Tell me what happened, honestly and confidentially, and I’ll map out your legal options for entering or remaining in Canada.