What Are My Options After Criminal Inadmissibility?

Applying to come to Canada is no simple feat. What can make it harder is if foreign nationals or permanent residents have a criminal record. Now, not all criminal records mean that an applicant is going to be found inadmissible to enter Canada. This blog post will help you understand the concept of criminality and serious criminality as it relates to immigration law in Canada.

What does it mean to be "inadmissible"?

Before discussing criminality and serious criminality, it's important to understand what it means to be found inadmissible in the course of the immigration process in Canada. Simply put, to be "inadmissible" is to have had your application to Canada rejected by the immigration authorities at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. There are different types of inadmissibility, such as medical inadmissibility and criminal inadmissibility. Criminal inadmissibility is divided into two grounds: criminality and serious criminality.