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[Naturgrl]

Friend,

I wrote a letter to my MP and to Immigration Minister Marc Miller to voice my support for reuniting refugee families.

While many will celebrate with their loved ones on February 17, huge delays in refugee family reunification will continue to prevent thousands of people across Canada from doing the same.

This Family Day, the CCR calls for urgent action to reunite refugee families.

Whether we were born here or came to Canada seeking refuge, we all want the same for our families: to have them safe and close by. This is true for particular reasons for refugees, who have experienced traumatic events and been forced to flee their homes. Even with refugee status in Canada, they can’t start rebuilding their lives when their spouse and children are far away, often themselves in precarious situations, perhaps in a war zone.

It is unconscionable that as a country we are making refugees wait more than 4 and a half years to be reunited with their immediate family, and this is after they have been accepted as refugees.

Canadians overwhelmingly support welcoming refugees and want better for our friends and neighbours waiting to be reunited with their families. Our government’s actions must reflect this support.

Can you join me and write a letter? Click here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/this-family-day-lets-reunite-refugee-families?source=email&

Thanks!

Just so you know that Family Day is not a federal holiday and only a statutory holiday in a few provinces. In Manitoba it is Louis Riel Day and in PEI it is Islander Day. Nice to mention Family Day but nothing to do with the Government of Canada. Also the 2025 budget was just tabled with the intent to stabilize immigration.

 

[Melsi]

I'm dependent outside Canada
Waiting for medical request
22 February 2023 applicant

Hi any news on your application, dependent overseas?

 

[canuck78]

Friend,

I wrote a letter to my MP and to Immigration Minister Marc Miller to voice my support for reuniting refugee families.

While many will celebrate with their loved ones on February 17, huge delays in refugee family reunification will continue to prevent thousands of people across Canada from doing the same.

This Family Day, the CCR calls for urgent action to reunite refugee families.

Whether we were born here or came to Canada seeking refuge, we all want the same for our families: to have them safe and close by. This is true for particular reasons for refugees, who have experienced traumatic events and been forced to flee their homes. Even with refugee status in Canada, they can’t start rebuilding their lives when their spouse and children are far away, often themselves in precarious situations, perhaps in a war zone.

It is unconscionable that as a country we are making refugees wait more than 4 and a half years to be reunited with their immediate family, and this is after they have been accepted as refugees.

Canadians overwhelmingly support welcoming refugees and want better for our friends and neighbours waiting to be reunited with their families. Our government’s actions must reflect this support.

Can you join me and write a letter? Click here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/this-family-day-lets-reunite-refugee-families?source=email&

Thanks!

This was from last year. Our immigration minister is MIA but she is definitely not Marc Miller.

 

[Melsi]

Hi guys is that normal that my dependent received documents requeste for second time asked,
Please provide an up-to-date CV from dependent overseas


- Please provide a copy of all pages of your marriage certificate with a translation.



-Please provide recent proof of your ongoing relationship from July 2022 till present (e.g., photos, communications, visits, etc.).

Has anyone had same thing!!! As a refugee without passport how can we re translate and nothorized marriage!!!
Could someone guide me

 

[Canadian_rainbow]

Hi guys is that normal that my dependent received documents requeste for second time asked,
Please provide an up-to-date CV from dependent overseas


- Please provide a copy of all pages of your marriage certificate with a translation.



-Please provide recent proof of your ongoing relationship from July 2022 till present (e.g., photos, communications, visits, etc.).

Has anyone had same thing!!! As a refugee without passport how can we re translate and nothorized marriage!!!
Could someone guide me

Can’t you just translate it if it’s not English or French? Why you have to nothorized?
They asked for us for proof of relationship too. Months ago. My partner in Canada with me and we got married here.