{"schema_version":"0.10.0","id":"LR-2026-0471","record_version":1,"title":"Canada immigration AI reviewer error fabricated job duties in rejection","verification":{"human_verified":false,"method":"automated_gate","auto_verified":true,"score":42.8,"score_breakdown":{"source_authority":12.1,"independent_corroboration":7.0,"implicated_party_confirmed":0.0,"citation_integrity":14.0,"specificity":0.0,"completeness":2.56,"unhedged_language":5.0},"checks":{"schema_valid":true,"every_field_cited":true,"quotes_verbatim":true,"source_fetched":true,"distinct_incident":true,"dates_plausible":true,"sources_agree":true,"source_describes_incident":true,"severe_backed_by_source":true,"record_integrity":true,"eligible":true,"about_this_case":true},"gate_version":"gate-2026-10-18.7","cross_check_model":null,"cross_check_agreement":null,"duplicate_of":null,"verified_by":null,"verified_at":"2026-11-01","extraction_run_id":null,"evidence_level":{"level":"preliminary","reason":"Publisher not yet named · subject to change","original_document":null,"reports_total":1,"reports_independent":0,"reports_derivative":0,"developing":false,"disputed":false,"rules_version":"evidence-2026-10-29.1","computed_at":"2026-11-01","history":[{"date":"2026-11-01","from_level":null,"to_level":"preliminary","reason":"Publisher not yet named · subject to change"}]},"sources_hash":"bfab0c9ff51f6ff4b6ab5345f73130290c979b248b9401e335e4af76df5fe379"},"system":{"model_name":null,"model_version":null,"developer":"unknown","harness":null,"tools_granted":[],"permissions_scope":null,"autonomy_level":"unknown","guardrails_present":[],"deployment_context":"unknown","tier":null,"lifecycle_stage":null,"integration_type":null,"intended_use":null,"safeguard_state":null,"production_intended":null},"event":{"date_occurred":null,"date_disclosed":"2026-03-25","incident_class":"hallucination","failure_class":null,"agent_involved":null,"secondary_failure_classes":[],"trigger":"unknown","duration":null,"detection_method":"victim","summary":"A Canadian immigration refusal letter cited job duties in a permanent residence case, including control circuit wiring and robot panel programming, that the applicant, a health scientist, said she had never held or submitted. The department said the duties did not match her claimed Canadian work experience. A disclaimer disclosed for the first time in refusals that generative AI supported application processing, that generated content was verified by an officer, and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision. The applicant noticed the description had nothing to do with her, and her lawyer said the system had hallucinated it. Critics raised concerns about generative AI in immigration assessment. The department did not answer questions about which tools it used or what officer verification involved. The lawyer requested reconsideration and the file has been reopened.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":null,"root_cause_detail":null,"failure_class_detail":null,"responsible_party":null,"adversarial_actor":null,"input_provenance":null,"time_to_contain":null,"operations_paused":null,"remediation":null,"precursor_events":null,"primary_risk":"RK14"},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":null,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":null,"severity":"moderate","severity_because":"Moderate test: data of others touched with a bounded scope stated; the refusal affects one applicant's own permanent residence application","harm_class":[],"affected_description":null,"protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canada-rejected-her-permanent-residence-application-her-job-duties-were-made-up--by-immigrations-ai-reviewer/article_3f1ea5be-0b3d-4541-ac00-0a1b8484d877.html","publisher":"Toronto Star","date":"2026-03-25","type":"press","title":"Canada rejected her permanent residence application. Her job duties were made up — by Immigration’s AI reviewer - Toronto Star","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report"}],"per_field_confidence":{"event.incident_class":"C","event.detection_method":"C","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.primary_risk":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","context.country":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Somehow, it hallucinated my client’s job description."}],"event.detection_method":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"“I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Somehow, it hallucinated my client’s job description."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The Immigration Department did not respond to the Star’s questions on what Gen AI tools they use, how they are being used in supporting application processing, what it’s tasked to do and what an officer’s verification involves."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Adé’s lawyer has requested that the Immigration Department reconsider her refusal, and the file has been reopened."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"Single press source; the source does not name the generative AI tool, its developer, model or version, or whether an autonomous agent was involved, so system model/developer fields, agent_involved and failure_class are omitted. The root cause, responsible party, trigger and detection date are not stated. The department disputes that generative AI played any role in the decision, and this is reported as its position only. The year 2026 for the late February refusal is inferred from the article date. The disclosure date is not stated, so date_disclosed is omitted. The number of affected parties is not stated; only one applicant is described. Severity moderate is my judgement from the bounded single-application scope. Mapping the officer verification claim to control I7 (grounding and fact checks) is my judgement, and the outcome failed reflects the fabricated content reaching the letter. No system change was reported, so no remediation is recorded. Reopening the file is not recorded as a control change. 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