Hey guys..below is the petition i wrote up ...LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU GUYS THINK OK? if we should add something or leave it as is ...otherwise, it would be too much of a read for anyone...and people will lose interest..
WHY PEOPLE SHOULD SUPPORT THIS PETITION?
How would you feel if you spent thousands of dollars and took a month off work to travel to another country and get married and had all the family that could attend just to find out you have to wait years to see your husband/wife again? How would you feel if you accepted that and then proceeded to visit that counry as much you could to be with your husband/wife and a pregnancy took place? How would you feel raising that child alone for years be it in Canada or the country abroad because you had to wait an astronomical amount of time for your husband/wife to arrive? As of March 2014, Any Canadian citizen or a Permanent Residence of Canada (Landed Immigrant) that marries in Pakistan is subjected to a spousal sponsorshiip applicant wait time of 32 months. This is true for many countries. The processing time for spousal applications takes an abnormal amount of time. This has increased steadily over the past couple of years. This is expected to increase even further as time goes by. Unfortunately, your time is not grandfathered claused from when you applied. This means a new wait time is your expected new wait time for every applicant. My personal application was received and processed in August 2012. My wait time was 26 months which was long enough to begin with. Currently, some 2011 Applicants are still waiting. NO ONE CAN BE EXPECTED TO WAIT 32 MONTHS FOR THEIR SPOUSE. THIS IS INHUMANE. THIS IS MY BASIC HUMAN RIGHT TO BE WITH MY SPOUSE.
I have the contacted the CIC Call Centre and have been informed they have no information on our files since they are no longer in Canada. When you ask where the file is, they will place you on a brief hold, only to come back and say we cannot confirm. Files have recently been sent to Ottawa, Islamabad, London, and even New Delhi in some cases to "reduce backlog".
CIC also claims they follow the First In First Out processing when in fact this is not true. There are documented cases of individuals applying after other applicants who share their own timelines. It is randomly chosen who's file will be looked into without any specified order. Once again, lack of communication is the key stress behind this frustration for thousands of people, not just Pakistanis.Seems like no one wants to a process a Pakistanis application. NO ONE CAN BE EXPECTED TO WAIT 32 MONTHS FOR THEIR SPOUSE. THIS IS INHUMANE. THIS IS MY BASIC HUMAN RIGHT TO BE WITH MY SPOUSE.
WHY HAVE I STARTED THIS PETITION?
To bring this issue to light that Pakistanis are being mistreated by the Canadian government with respect to spousal sponsorship. How is ANYONE expected to live without their spouse for 32 months. That is 2 years and 6 months. As of right now, we have the highest processing time in the world for Canada. Another reason is that as an applicant, I have not been communicated with properly and have been pretty much "left in the dark". No one in CIC is accepting responsibility or owning up to this and quite frankly, the silence will have to end SOME day. NO ONE CAN BE EXPECTED TO WAIT 32 MONTHS FOR THEIR SPOUSE. THIS IS INHUMANE. THIS IS MY BASIC HUMAN RIGHT TO BE WITH MY SPOUSE.
WHAT DO WE WANT?
We simply just want our applications processed and want to be provided the proper information when we call and inquire. I have received NO correspondence along with many other thousands of applicants for over 20 months. I have been married since March 31, 2012 and have seen my wife for only two months. This is beyond ridiculous. NO ONE CAN BE EXPECTED TO WAIT 32 MONTHS FOR THEIR SPOUSE. THIS IS INHUMANE. THIS IS MY BASIC HUMAN RIGHT TO BE WITH MY SPOUSE.
Also, you will notice many complaints on this website, Change.org, against CIC's lack of actions and poor processing times. A 92 year old woman has been waiting since 1994 while IN Canada for her paperwork ad she is still in "the process". This is impractical. People can literraly live their life waiting for this and die long before CIC processes anything. Applicants have had kids they have not seen, sometimes up to 2 to 4 years, due to this "process". This has caused much turmoil between even legit marriages due to tensions rising high from anbormal wait times, sometimes even resulting in divorce and withdrawing applications.
Please click these links below and see for yourself.
CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION CANADA'S TIMELINE EXPECTATIONS:
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CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION CANADA'S DISCUSSION FORUM:
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