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The Mixed-Orientation Couple: a dramatic development in Canadian immigration law

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  ANALYSIS: Canadian judge rules couples do not have to be of the same sexual orientation for conjugal sponsorship Immigration law both shapes and reflects the society that creates it.A recent and important case, A.P. v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2020 FC 906 (CanLII) makes this saying clear.In it, we see the dialogic, interpretation, and practical nature of Canadian policy and law. The Federal Court of Canada recently face a case including a rather unusual set of situation, where a gay man and a straight lady who shared a kid were denied marital sponsorship.The realities are as the following:  A man known to us just by his initials, A.P., came to Canada quite a long while prior. A.P. declared that he was subject to  persecution in his unnamed country of beginning due to being gay.A.P's claim was successful,and he gained secured person status and permanent residency in Canada. Some time later, A.P. met up,  in a third country, with a heterosexual female friend from colle