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| Subject: If you're sponsoring your parent, I need your help |
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Hi,
Immigration Canada is not reviewing applications in the Parents Sponsorship Applications. This is really dissapointing. The back log is now 17-18 months.
I need your help in order to improve this. Please send a letter of complaint to your MEMEBER OF PARLAMENT ( You can find who he is by your postal code at http://www.parl.gc.ca/ and forward a copy to my e.mail address at sponsoryourparent@hotmail.com.
We need to gather together to let the government that we care and we want to be with our parents and this is UNFAIR.
Help me to spread this request
Hope to hear from A LOT OF people soon!!!
[26-11-2004,15:36]
sponsoryourparent |
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(in reply to: If you're sponsoring your parent, I need your help)
please provide the source where you heard this decision.
[26-11-2004,15:58]
Anonymous |
Sponsoring of parent (in reply to: If you're sponsoring your parent, I need your help)
Hi!
Please replay. I want to be sure that I can get your messages.
[27-11-2004,00:13]
Jenia |
Our parents (in reply to: If you're sponsoring your parent, I need your help)
I already was visiting my local MP 2 month ago. She is a Liberal.
From the beginning she didn?t understand what I?m talking about. She was sure that backlog is abroad of Canada and even sent fax to the Foreign Embassy. Embassy answered very quickly: they don?t have my file.
I used to explain her several times that backlog is in Canada. She didn?t believe me. She said, ?It?s impossible!?
Then she called to someone in Ministry of Immigration and was told that reviewing of Parents Sponsorship Applications was stopped for some reason and nobody knows when it will start again.
When I came to her office in week, she already was not surprise and started explain me that situation is not so bad and so on (Liberals)
She even suggested writing Petition. One of my friends helps me to write the Petition. So I have it and don?t think it will help.
We have to send our words to Opposition Parties. I already send week ago letter to Opposition party Official Shadow Immigration Minister Diane Ablonczy www.dianeablonczy.com, but so far there is no respond.
We have to send letter to NDP party also. Lets do something!
I think Petition is very mild. In my letter to Ms. Ablonczy I used different tone, but so far there is no respond. (See http://www.conservative.ca/english/shadowcabinet.asp for member of Official Opposition Shadow cabinet).
I see you English is better, so lets do something. I can send you the copy of letter to Ms. Ablobczy.
Petition
We, the undersigned, are concerned about the lengthening waiting time for the processing of parental sponsorship by the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, in the GTA and across Canada.
Applications wait for 17+ months within Canada before they are reviewed and sent overseas. The overall processing timetable for parental applications has been growing from the official 18-24 month period, to 42 months! Since parents/grandparents are sponsored by their adult hardworking children, they tend to be of declining years, usually over the age of 65.
In many cases, they face great material and emotional hardships at home, difficulties that will be resolved by their loving family in Canada. The lengthening waiting periods and the advancing years of the sponsored exacerbate an already stressful family separation for no other reason than bureaucratic procedures.
We respectfully request the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration to look into this situation with a view to reducing the processing timeframe to the stated standards on the application. Additionally, we ask all of our political representatives, and society at large, to make their voices heard on this growing concern.
[27-11-2004,00:42]
Jenia |
Parents (in reply to: If you're sponsoring your parent, I need your help)
For Anonymous
If you interesting in the subject you have to know this address by heart:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/times/process-in.html
[27-11-2004,00:46]
Jenia |
Sponsorship of parents (in reply to: If you're sponsoring your parent, I need your help)
Btw,
The numbers 42+ months (in petition) gave me my local MP, after conversation with officer in Ministry of Immigration.
So we definitely have to do something!
I think we have to write letters to Media (Globe and Mail, National Post). This is an extreme example of government irresponsibility and lies.
Ms. Srgo now under scandals after scandals. I think until she is a head of Immigration nothing can be changed.
[27-11-2004,01:55]
Jenia |
Please see the link (in reply to: If you're sponsoring your parent, I need your help)
Please see the link
http://www.canada-city.ca/canada-immigration/posting.php?messageid=1819
[28-11-2004,18:57]
Jenia |
(in reply to: If you're sponsoring your parent, I need your help)
I absolutely understand all the frustration that you and others feel.. I do not
believe in "17-18 month" bullshit. I applied in October last year and they were
processing May 2003 applications at that time. In a year they processed only
one month worth of applications, and applying simple math one may conclude that
the real timing is at least few years before my application even opened. (this
is a remark to those who say that few month of waiting is not a big deal... I
wish it was only few month.. or even a year... or even 2 years, I can wait, but
5+ years is heartbreaking). If these applications are being processed at all..
Do not forget, this is only a start. After sponsorship is approved, our parents
will have to send an immigration application to the Canadian embassy. I called
Immigration not long ago and all they can say is they "do not know", "17-18
month" and "there too many applications lately", which I do not believe. By the
way, I asked if I will need to upgrade my financial evaluation papers when my
file will be opened, and they said yes. It does not matter that I spent 2 month
preparing all the required financial documents last year. They are already
outdated.
I do not believe that immigrated parents are a burden to the society. They are
supported by the sponsor for 10 years in contrast to the "skilled workers"
that can start living on welfare almost as soon as they land.
I applied for my parents and my younger brother, who are my only living blood
relatives. My parents are both PhD, speak English and under 60. Dad tells me all the time that they will do anything not to be a burden to me or society even if he will have to work as a cab driver. Because of their age, they do not have enough points to qualify for "skilled worker" category. My brother is very excited and hopeful, and keeps asking me "when?",
and I do not know what to say to him any more. To be qualified for the "skilled
worker" category he may have to wait another 10 years, and it will be much more
difficult for him to integrate to the society than now, while he is young (he
is only 20 now, and a student)..
I will try to contact my MP ASAP(she is NDP)
I am not sure how lawyer can help (as some suggest)
For the most part, immigration lawyers are only helping to prepare documents,
and have no influence on the immigration process itself.
[30-11-2004,22:45]
Lanie |
I really really want my mother (in reply to: If you're sponsoring your parent, I need your help)
Hi Jenia,
I am an immigrant from China four years ago and submitted my sponsorship Dec.1th, 2003. My mother is living in China totally alone. Ten years ago, both my father and her relatives past away, and she never get married again.
After I realized that the sponsorship processing time becomes 17-18 months (They stopped it actually), I really feel the frustration and hate myself. I condemn myself everyday about how naive I was to believe the information the Canadian Government gave us on their web site, the information they provided to us four years ago that the parent could reunite with their family in a short period of time, I worked very hard in the past four years, trying to make a good foundation for the reunion of my family. After I finally feel comfortable to support my mother, they stopped the sponsorship processing. What an unfair situation for our immigrants!!!
I wrote a letter to Minister of Immigration and Citizenship on mid Jun and only got a bloody cold response that stated I have to wait. I also called my local MPs and tried to call the minister herself, but no one works. Today, I have totally lost the idea what shall I do for my mother; no, it is no only for my mother, but also for myself. I can´t bear the stress and frustration everyday. I can´t bear the tears on my face every time when I think about her. I really support the action you are taking. If it is possible I really want to do something with you. Not only for our parents but also for ourselves. We are the human beings, we have the right to have parents, and we have the obligation to support our aged parents. This is the right and obligation that God gave us. We are the people who have no differences with Canadians but only come to this land late. We deserved to have the basic human rights as every native Canadians have.
[17-12-2004,17:49]
Michael |
16 month evaluation rule (in reply to: If you're sponsoring your parent, I need your help)
I applied to sponsor my parents 4 months ago and got a letter from CIC that it will take 16 months for CIC to check if I am qualified. "16 months" to check if I qualify?
Isn´t it enough for them to take one month to know where I work and how much I earn? I had paid over $100,000 TAX money to Canada governemnt since I immigrated to Canada 5 years ago. Can my $100,000 TAX money deserve a quick answer I am qualified?
I fully understand that any application should go to a queue for process, but 16 months evaluation time for qualification is ridiculous long and inhuman.
[21-12-2004,12:59]
Dave |
Got a reply from a member of House of Commons (in reply to: If you're sponsoring your parent, I need your help)
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From: Glenda Garrison
Executive Assistant to Inky Mark, M.P.
Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette Parliamentary Office
Thank you for your letter. I will ensure it is brought to Mr. Mark´s attention.
Glenda Garrison
Executive Assistant
Room 686, Confederation Building
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
t | 613.992.3176
f | 613.992.0930
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[04-01-2005,15:55]
monica |
Got reply from one member of house of commons (in reply to: If you're sponsoring your parent, I need your help)
Sorry, I should have post in English.
I sent a personal letter to each of the House of Commons standing committee members on december 31st, following the advice of Jenia. Today I got the first reply from one member as follows:
From: Glenda Garrison
Executive Assistant to Inky Mark, M.P.
Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette Parliamentary Office
Thank you for your letter. I will ensure it is brought to Mr. Mark´s attention.
Glenda Garrison
Executive Assistant
Room 686, Confederation Building
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
t | 613.992.3176
f | 613.992.0930
I don´t know what this means. How much can this assistant really do for us? Or, it´s just a meanlingless polite reply.
[04-01-2005,16:01]
Monica |
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