visa application for adopted daughter
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Is your daughter related to you? Is she a true orphan(both parents deceased)? Was she adopted after you became a PR?
My sister daughter. Parents are still alive. All endorsement papers are approved. We have provincial approval also. We only need visa to get her. And we don’t know what visa we should apply.
Unfortunately Canada will not recognize the adoption since her parents are alive. This is considered an adoption of convenience. The adoption is likely to bring the child to Canada and nir because she is an orphan and doesn’t gave parents. It’s too bad you didn’t research this before going through the process of adopting this child. You would have realized thatshe would have never been able to go to Canada this way and the adoption wouldn’t be recognized by Canada.
What do you mean by provincial approval? The province didn’t verify that her parents were still alive. IRCC certainly will and will ask for death certificates of the parents.
Oh we got provincial approval already. And the case is between family services in here through inter country adoption board. We did a legal process in here. Lots of people do that.
I know but I am surprised that the provincial government has not verified that the child is a true orphan knowing that IRCC will evaluate this as an adoption of convenience and will not award the child PR. If you used a lawyer did they not warn you that this will be considered an adoption of convenience?
Was the child in the care of social services in the Philippines. Are both parents gravely ill? What prompted this adoption and when did you get PR yourself? Is this adoption an attempt to have the child go and live in Canada for a better future? Do you have children of your own? Are you married? Are your parents deceased? Do you have other family in Canada?
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Applying to sponsor the child for PR should get denied because it is an adoption of convenience. It is unfortunate that so much time and effort has gone into the process of adopting this child when they won’t qualify for PR. They will now have parents in Canada that they can’t live with an no legal parents in the Philippines which may cause issues hit this child.
The inter country adoption board of the origin of a child did a legal processes too through the social welfare. This is a govt to govt process.
Unfortunately this process seems to ignore the immigration component. A child that is part of an adoption of convenience will get denied PR when you try to sponsor them unless there is proof that the adoption is not for immigration purposes. For example if the parents in Canada had been the child’s primary caregiver for years to their whole life because the child’s parents were unable to care for the child for example if they were an addict, had developed a serious helical condition where the parent felt that they could not care for the child, the child has been removed from their home be social services, etc. Although it is common to adopt children from relatives in many countries when it was allowed in Canada it lead to many families letting their children be adopted solely so they could immigrate and many children ended up being mistreated and treated differently than the biological children in the household. The children and biological parents underwent a lot of trauma because they were separated for the chance at immigration not because their families could not care for them, didn’t love them and were competent parents. Families abroad with less means felt pressured to give up their children so they could immigrate which they wouldn’t have considered if you removed immigration from the equation. IRCC is not as strict but there has been no mention of reasons other than immigration that lead the aunt to pursue adoption.
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