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A Metro Vancouver woman whose husband defrauded the Bank of China of tens of millions of dollars will have to make her case to stay in Canada a second time to an immigration board.

Last February, the board’s Immigration Appeal Division granted Li Xue permission to remain in Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds despite her failure to disclose on a 2003 immigration application that her husband, Gao Shan, worked for the Bank of China.

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At the time, he was already under investigation for defrauding the institution, a crime for which he was later convicted and is now serving a 15-year sentence.

The Canadian government appealed the ruling in Li’s favour to the Federal Court of Canada, and just won an order forcing the immigration board to take another look at the case.

Judge Michael Manson said the earlier decision to allow Li to stay “is not reasonable, intelligible or justified in light of the misrepresentation and lack of candour evidenced by the respondent.”