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Actor Randy Quaid has been ordered released by the Immigration and Refugee Board but faces the looming prospect of being returned to the United States as early as next week.

Quaid appeared briefly before the board in Montreal on Thursday for a detention review and was released in short order by board member Dianne Tordorf, who said there were no grounds to hold him.

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Quaid has already been arrested once by CBSA officers in May and released on $10,000 bond and a host of conditions by the same board member, all of which had been respected.

“All the conditions have been respected, I find that the offer of release that I made in the past is completely valid today,” Tordorf ruled. “I’m releasing you right now because there’s no reason to detain you, there is no breach, there is nothing under the law that would permit me even to deprive you of your freedom.”

The CBSA’s Anthony Lashley told the hearing an impending departure date and the rejection of a pre-removal risk assessment application on Sept. 22 prompted the arrest on Tuesday, fearing he wouldn’t comply with an order to leave the country next Wednesday.