mariah said:
so guys what did u decide?? who is in for this ?
thinking of drafting an email and sending it to mr kenney and harper and the ndp mp as some one suggested. plz pist ur comments/suggestions.
also leeme know if all of us can gather and protest sumwhere if tht helps
Sis,
I am in but let me give a advice, the letter that will be going to Mr. Harper and Kenny should have same personal info attached that what we provide to embassy when we inquire the status about our cases; so in that way Mr. Harper and Kenny will consider the letter as a real one and not the fake one.
I know my status is newbie and probably you all must be thinking that who the hell he is to offer the advice by sitting on such a newbie status. Let me tell you a little bit about my self: few years back, I was involved in my brother's immigration process and later in my sis in law's immigration and also was communicating with embassy for my nephew's passports. So on this forum yes I am newbie but I have been actually communicating with CHC-I for the last few years for my family related immigration matters.
Anyhow, point (the important one) is we SHOULD NOT be sharing file number/DOB/names etc. with each other on this forum and people's privacy concerns are very much
valid - I second to the concerns.
Protest at one place is not possible because we all are living in different parts of the Canada; so protest at physical location is out of question.
One thing that we still can do is, you still can draft a letter and paste it on the Forum. After getting members mutual consensus on letter's content, we will request the first five members to send the individual letters to Mr. Harper and Kenny from their own mail boxes. I think Forum members would happily do this because they won't be sharing any private info with other forum members and they will be sending letters from their own private mail boxes.
Idea is: I think we are 50 people who are registered on this forum - doesn't matter some are new and some are old because we all know that time line recently went up to 20+ months and which is not reasonable for spousal cases (we are all in same boat). So (once the letter content has been finalized) for the next ten business days Mr. Harper and Kenny will keep getting the letters from different parts of the Canada and from different individuals; those letters will tell them that 1) we are protesting 2) we are NOT fake people 3) we are really disturbed with the way CHC-I processes our application 4) and also we are not happy with CHC-I time line i.e 20+ months and with CHC-I lazy dazzy routine. So, instead of sending one letter we will be sending them 50 letters and one after the other. The message that we are protesting as an one community will also be delivered.
Later after a month (if nothing happens) we can send (by following the same routine) the same letters to NDP Leader and our local MP's, media and list goes on.... Point is letter should stay same and letter should be originating form real people and with real private info.
What we want to achieve from all this: An official government initiated audit to CHC-I.
It would be wonderful, If someone can do French translation of the letter. People who knows French they can send the French copies of the same letter to Mr. Harper and Kenny - this would tell them that it's not only English speaking but also there are few French speaking as-well who are disturbed by CHC-I (not a big impact though but still every little effort will count to something).
People who are not registered on this forum and are silent readers, maybe, they will come forward and join us in sending letters to Mr. Harper and Kenny as-well - silent readers can still do this activity by keeping their status as silent.
Basically, it will be a mutual effort that would help all (the current AND future victims of CHC-I).
Brothers and Sisters we are not stupid nation and CHC-I cannot make our fools - please come forward and help the community. There is really a big need to initiate some thing. We all know CHC-I is giving us real hard time and we all are frustrated with their behavior and the way they handle our immigration cases. Honestly they are giving us mental torture in a real sense which is basically a CRIME but unfortunately their is no punishment exist in law for such white collar crime. I hope at least you know your this Canadian right that you are free to say anything so please come forward and say something to your Mr. Prime Minister and his Minister by sending them a letter.
Sis, please go ahead and draft a letter and paste that on forum.
p.s. (just an advice): to say someone 'kutaa' wouldn't help you and wouldn't help community but only dialog/communication with the person that you hate the most would definitely help all!
p.p.s. A very humble request to Brothers and sisters who paste jokes and youtube songs links on this forum: Please stop doing that because that waste people's precious time. Everyone (who has a computer with an internet explorer installed on it) knows jokes & you tube web URL's. I know your intent is not bad and you try to cheer people up but still this forum is not meant for that and not the right place for pasting jokes and you tube links (Thank you).
JzazakAlllah Khair