Does USA voluntary deportation affect PR sponsorship?

[Assaf97]

My older brother who is a Canadian PR is sponsoring my mother and I and our application has now reached our local visa office (Beirut), they asked for FBI clearance for my mother which we requested and when the results came in it states that she was voluntary deported from the USA (I was under 18 so no clearance from me).

The story is that when we were residing in the USA on a expired visa my family chose to voluntary leave the USA and apply for refugee status in Canada at the border which we were approved for. 6 years later after our court hearing we were deported from Canada except my brother who was approved for PR because his file was in Alberta while we were in Ontario. We voluntary left Canada in 2012 and since then my mother has applied for a grandparent super visa which she currently holds and is now being sponsored for PR with me as her dependent.

Would our history in the USA make us ineligible at this point? While filling out our paperwork like the eimm5669 we did state that we lived previously in USA but it never asked anything about deportation.

 

[scylla]

My older brother who is a Canadian PR is sponsoring my mother and I and our application has now reached our local visa office (Beirut), they asked for FBI clearance for my mother which we requested and when the results came in it states that she was voluntary deported from the USA (I was under 18 so no clearance from me).

The story is that when we were residing in the USA on a expired visa my family chose to voluntary leave the USA and apply for refugee status in Canada at the border which we were approved for. 6 years later after our court hearing we were deported from Canada except my brother who was approved for PR because his file was in Alberta while we were in Ontario. We voluntary left Canada in 2012 and since then my mother has applied for a grandparent super visa which she currently holds and is now being sponsored for PR with me as her dependent.

Would our history in the USA make us ineligible at this point? While filling out our paperwork like the eimm5669 we did state that we lived previously in USA but it never asked anything about deportation.

There are questions on the application that ask if you were ever removed from a country or refused a visa. As long as she answered these questions truthfully and said yes - there won't be an issue.

 

[Assaf97]

There are questions on the application that ask if you were ever removed from a country or refused a visa. As long as she answered these questions truthfully and said yes - there won't be an issue.

e) Been refused admission to, or ordered to leave Canada or any other country?

This was asked in the eimm5669, which we answered yes to because of our history in Canada. When asked to write details on why we answered yes we only spoke about Canada. Should we have mentioned about our voluntary deportation from the USA in the description as well? We did not think about while filling out the paperwork as we were under the assumption that because we approached the border and voluntary left.

 

[scylla]

e) Been refused admission to, or ordered to leave Canada or any other country?

This was asked in the eimm5669, which we answered yes to because of our history in Canada. When asked to write details on why we answered yes we only spoke about Canada. Should we have mentioned about our voluntary deportation from the USA in the description as well? We did not think about while filling out the paperwork as we were under the assumption that because we approached the border and voluntary left.

She should have mentioned both. I would notify the visa office of this error, amend the paperwork, and resubmit the corrected paperwork asap. One doesn't end up with a voluntary deportation on their FBI record unless there's been some sort of visa refusal and they have been ordered removed or ordered to leave. What exactly is your mother's full immigration history in the U.S.? I think this is an important question she needs to answer in order to correct the paperwork.