The permanent resident status of Tooba Yahya, the Montreal woman serving a life sentence for killing her three daughters and her husband's first wife in 2009, has been revoked.

Yahya, husband Mohammad Shafia and their son Hamed were convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of the women in 2012. The bodies of their daughters Zainab,19, Sahar,17, and Geeti, 13, and that of Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, were found in a car submerged in the Kingston Locks.

The Shafia family and Rona Amir, Mohammad Shafia's first wife in the polygamous marriage, left Afghanistan and came to Canada in 2007.

At a hearing in Montreal Thursday, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada determined that Yahya will not be permitted to remain in Canada as a permanent resident when she is releasedfrom prison. She will not be eligible for parole for at least another 16 years.

The three Shafia daughters and their father's first wife were murdered in 2009 by their parents and eldest brother. (CBC)

She is serving her sentence at Quebec's Joliette Institution for Women and appeared at the hearing by video link.

Yayah's lawyer Stéphane Handfield said his client's life could be in danger if she is returned to Afghanistan and her only recourse will be a humanitarian appeal.

A deportation order was issued for Mohammad Shafia on Feb. 27. The immigration board said it had no information concerning Hamed Shafia.

It's not yet clear whether similar immigration proceedings will be launched in the cases of Hamed and Mohammad Shafia, who are serving their sentences in Ontario.

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