Date: 20000502
Docket: IMM-1916-99
BETWEEN:
ZI CHEN
Applicant
- and -
THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION
Respondent
REASONS FOR ORDER AND ORDER
(Pursuant to Rule 397(2))
BLAIS J.
[1] After the hearing, the applicant was allowed to suggest a question for certification.
[2] The application by letter dated April 28, 2000, requested that the Court considers the following question for certification:
| Is there sufficient connection between a bachelor"s degree in English language studies (which included courses in: Intensive Reading; Oral English; Phonetics; Listening Comprehension; Extensive Reading; Advanced Reading; English to Chinese Translation; English Grammar, and; Chinese to English Translation) and a degree in translation such that it would be unreasonable and an error of mixed fact and law for a visa officer to determine that that course of studies is not a "related discipline" to translation under the employment requirements for the interpreter occupation of the National Occupational Classification? |
[3] In my opinion, the arguments raised by the applicant requesting the judicial review of the visa officer decision are questions of facts that have to be assessed by the visa officer. Which he did in this case.
[4] I consider that the question submitted is not a question of general importance and it will not be certified.
Pierre Blais Judge
OTTAWA, ONTARIO
MAY 2, 2000