Drink driving offence - applying for rehabilitation

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Feb 21st 2010, 8:27 am

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Re: Drink driving offence - applying for rehabilitation

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Originally Posted by oliverjude

My husband had a drink driving dec 04 with a 12 mth ban and we have had two holidays to Canada. The dd has not caused us any problems in entering Canada.

It won't have done, because they don't ask about your criminal record when you enter Canada. But if you enter a country you're expected to abide by their entry laws/requirements and until he has rehab, he's inadmissible. Have a look at the CIC website and the info on there regarding rehab..............http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/informa...ns/rehabil.asp

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Originally Posted by oliverjude

Regarding rehabilitation, when my husband had his dd he decided to do a rehabilitation course. Would that class him as rehbilitated or would we still need to apply for rehabilitation.

You'd still have to apply for criminal rehab, it's specific to CIC so you need to go through them for it. He can apply once 5 years from the end of his sentence have passed (so Dec 2010). Not sure if him having entered Canada when he wasn't supposed to have done will cause issues though, may be worth a consultation with an immigration lawyer/consultant to check that out?