Dear Sir/Madam
We hope this email finds you in the best condition. We (myself and my wife) are writing to consult you in our case. We understand that we have breached the residency obligation. We also understand that as holders of valid PR cards, we may be able to enter Canada and stay there for a couple of years and renew our PR card after two years. However, we have a little family with kids born outside Canada as detailed below. We understand that one possible way to accommodate the new situation to let the father go back to Canada and sponsor the kids and the mother after renewing the PR card. Yet, since we put family union as a top priority, we want to sponsor the kids once we go back to Canada based on humanitarian and compassionate circumstances. Hence, we are writing to inquire if our case, as detailed below, falls under this category.
Thanks in advance for your kind advice.
Best regards
Our story with the Canadian immigration started when I get enrolled for a PhD study at University of Toronto in 2003.
In 2004, I applied for the immigration.
In 2006, I got married and I added my wife to the immigration application.
In 2007, we moved to Ireland as I was offered a postdoctoral researcher position at the Department of Computer Science, University College Cork. At this time our application was still under processing at the Canadian Embassy in Egypt.
In 2008, my wife was offered a scholarship for an M.SC degree at University College Cork and she started her study that was expected to finish by December 2010.
Late 2009, our application stared to get processed.
In February 2010, we landed in Vancouver for a short trip and we received our PR Cards when we returned back to Ireland through a friend.
In March 2011, we decided to leave Ireland and we returned back to Egypt. We had two main reasons for returning back there and not traveling directly to Canada at that time
1. The first reason is that we wanted to have children especially that we have been married for five years during which
◦ My wife got pregnant in early March 2007, while we were in Canada, but unfortunately, my wife miscarried by the end of March (she has been to the emergency unit in Saint Michael hospital twice).
◦ Since the miscarriage, we tried to conceive naturally again but we failed.
◦ In Sep 2007, we consulted doctors in Egypt and our tests were normal. We were diagnosed with unexplained infertility.
◦ While we were in Ireland, we tried ovulation induction several times but no success.
◦ We decided that we need to undergo an IVF or ICSI treatments. We find that these procedures cost a lot of money in both Ireland and Canada [REF] while it is not that expensive in Egypt (around 2000 CAD the total cost for a single ICSI treatment in comparison to 7k-12k CAD per trial in Canada). Hence, we decided to move back to Egypt in March 2011.
◦ We first tried for ovulation induction with IUI but again no success.
◦ We started our first ICSI treatment in September 2011. We found out we were expecting our first child in October 2011.
◦ We wanted to deliver this new baby in Canada but we were afraid of another miscarriage especially after six years of waiting. Our first Child was born in June 2012 in Cairo, Egypt.
◦ By that time, we wanted to move back to Canada but we were tied with parents’ health issue as explained below.
◦ With no further treatments, we were surprised that we were expecting our second child in April 2012 and he was born in November 2013.
2. My wife mother has a severe osteoarthritis and she could hardly walk. She always had severe pain and regularly takes strong pain killers. That was a second strong reason for us to return back to Egypt to take care of her.
◦ After many trials with medication, the grandmother could not overcome the pain and she was scheduled for a surgery to replace one knee joint in March 2013.
◦ After this surgery the pain she felt in her knee decreased dramatically and she has another scheduled surgery in February 2014 to replace the other knee joint.
As now our two main obstacles for not going back to Canada are resolved, we are planning to return back to Canada. We know that we have not satisfied the two year residency obligation and to maintain our permanent residence status but we believe we have strong humanitarian reasons that prevented us from doing so.
However, our sons were born outside Canada and we cannot take them with us until we fulfill the two year residency obligation. As parents, we cannot consider this option to stay away from our precious and long waiting sons for this very long period. Additionally, we strongly believe in family unity; hence, we did not consider the option that I travel and stay there to fulfill the residency obligation before sponsoring the rest of the family.
We hope this email finds you in the best condition. We (myself and my wife) are writing to consult you in our case. We understand that we have breached the residency obligation. We also understand that as holders of valid PR cards, we may be able to enter Canada and stay there for a couple of years and renew our PR card after two years. However, we have a little family with kids born outside Canada as detailed below. We understand that one possible way to accommodate the new situation to let the father go back to Canada and sponsor the kids and the mother after renewing the PR card. Yet, since we put family union as a top priority, we want to sponsor the kids once we go back to Canada based on humanitarian and compassionate circumstances. Hence, we are writing to inquire if our case, as detailed below, falls under this category.
Thanks in advance for your kind advice.
Best regards
Our story with the Canadian immigration started when I get enrolled for a PhD study at University of Toronto in 2003.
In 2004, I applied for the immigration.
In 2006, I got married and I added my wife to the immigration application.
In 2007, we moved to Ireland as I was offered a postdoctoral researcher position at the Department of Computer Science, University College Cork. At this time our application was still under processing at the Canadian Embassy in Egypt.
In 2008, my wife was offered a scholarship for an M.SC degree at University College Cork and she started her study that was expected to finish by December 2010.
Late 2009, our application stared to get processed.
In February 2010, we landed in Vancouver for a short trip and we received our PR Cards when we returned back to Ireland through a friend.
In March 2011, we decided to leave Ireland and we returned back to Egypt. We had two main reasons for returning back there and not traveling directly to Canada at that time
1. The first reason is that we wanted to have children especially that we have been married for five years during which
◦ My wife got pregnant in early March 2007, while we were in Canada, but unfortunately, my wife miscarried by the end of March (she has been to the emergency unit in Saint Michael hospital twice).
◦ Since the miscarriage, we tried to conceive naturally again but we failed.
◦ In Sep 2007, we consulted doctors in Egypt and our tests were normal. We were diagnosed with unexplained infertility.
◦ While we were in Ireland, we tried ovulation induction several times but no success.
◦ We decided that we need to undergo an IVF or ICSI treatments. We find that these procedures cost a lot of money in both Ireland and Canada [REF] while it is not that expensive in Egypt (around 2000 CAD the total cost for a single ICSI treatment in comparison to 7k-12k CAD per trial in Canada). Hence, we decided to move back to Egypt in March 2011.
◦ We first tried for ovulation induction with IUI but again no success.
◦ We started our first ICSI treatment in September 2011. We found out we were expecting our first child in October 2011.
◦ We wanted to deliver this new baby in Canada but we were afraid of another miscarriage especially after six years of waiting. Our first Child was born in June 2012 in Cairo, Egypt.
◦ By that time, we wanted to move back to Canada but we were tied with parents’ health issue as explained below.
◦ With no further treatments, we were surprised that we were expecting our second child in April 2012 and he was born in November 2013.
2. My wife mother has a severe osteoarthritis and she could hardly walk. She always had severe pain and regularly takes strong pain killers. That was a second strong reason for us to return back to Egypt to take care of her.
◦ After many trials with medication, the grandmother could not overcome the pain and she was scheduled for a surgery to replace one knee joint in March 2013.
◦ After this surgery the pain she felt in her knee decreased dramatically and she has another scheduled surgery in February 2014 to replace the other knee joint.
As now our two main obstacles for not going back to Canada are resolved, we are planning to return back to Canada. We know that we have not satisfied the two year residency obligation and to maintain our permanent residence status but we believe we have strong humanitarian reasons that prevented us from doing so.
However, our sons were born outside Canada and we cannot take them with us until we fulfill the two year residency obligation. As parents, we cannot consider this option to stay away from our precious and long waiting sons for this very long period. Additionally, we strongly believe in family unity; hence, we did not consider the option that I travel and stay there to fulfill the residency obligation before sponsoring the rest of the family.
