Rob_TO said:
Article also doesn't state if they applied for a TRV (though I assume they did and it was denied).
The article does say that they applied for TRV and were denied.
“Back in Canada, they applied for sponsorship and waited. And waited. Asaad fired off desperate emails to Citizenship and Immigration Canada. No response.
He filled out visitor visa applications - all rejected.”
Rob_TO said:
It also doesn't state the mom could have stayed in Jordan with the child, even if PR card expired. As long as she didn't stay out of Canada over 3 years, she could have easily applied for a Travel Document to return back to Canada later. Father could have applied for child's sponsorship from Canada.
The article said that the mother left Canada in June 2013 (Article mentioned child was 7 months old when mother left) and flew back to Canada in Jan 2014. Plenty of time for the mother to stay in Jordan until child gets PR (According to CIC timeline for Jordan approx. is 26 months in total). That means the mother could have stayed another 29 months with 19 months left to go for PR application.
I noticed in article this: “
Back in Canada, they applied for sponsorship and waited. And waited. " was written after the paragraph of mother returning to Canada. Does this means they didn't submit their PR application until the mother came back to Canada? The article left out a critical part of information on when they actually applied for PR. Did they apply shortly after child was born or applied when mother returned to Canada.
Did the parents assume the child will have automatic Canadian citizenship because of the father? Is this the part "
When they went to the Canadian embassy to get Tuleen's paperwork in order, they were shocked to hear they had to do the unthinkable - leave their baby behind", when they were applying for Canadian citizenship for their child and discovered this mistaken assumption?
This article is basically means that the couple made some "not so good" decisions of their own and not being well informed of citizenship laws. That cause them a lot of grief in being separated from their child. There is no fault on CIC's part in any way. The situation that the parents ended up with is entirely the parents' doing.
The only error, I see, on Embassy's part is telling them that the dependent sponsorship must be made from Canada. Not sure why they told them that. Perhaps they assumed the couple are both PR since the mother is PR herself. Since the father is Canadian, he can easily apply from within Canada or while in Jordan.