Hello, first of I want to apologize for how long this will be but I really need help or answers:
I’m November of 2012 my family and I came to Canada from colombia due to danger. My family consists of my mom, my 16 year old sister, and me, 19. My sister and I were both minors when we entered the country, her being 10 and me being 13. We entered in a refugee claim since we are in danger in Colombia due to things my dad has done to my mom and my family. The tricky thing is we have dual citizenship, my mom born in England to colombian parents, and my sister and I born in Colombia but obtained British citizenship due to my moms status. We came because things were awful in Colombia and due to all the stress it has affected me long term. We didn’t go to England because we have no family there, no friends there no connections just the fact that my mom was born there 40 years ago and taken out and moved to Colombia at only 6 months of being born. Continuing our story in Canada, we applied for refugee claim in November 2012 but due to the law changing we became a legacy case waited and waited for an answer for years and years and in June 2017 our lawyer said to my mom that us having British citizenship would be a problem in our refugee application and told her other ways we could get permanent residency. In those long 5 years we got pretty settled. I pretty much grew up in Toronto and so did my sister, we became very attached to the people, our friends and people that became family. We had our lives pretty settled mom had a good paying job with our dream apartment a car and financial stability. I had gotten in a serious relationship with a guy I am now engaged to. In 2018 my mom decided to apply for humanitarian and compassionate grounds since we had no chance on getting the refugee claim. We then waited to have a hearing date and went to remove our case in order to file the H&C application. In doing so we lost our status in Canada. I did not know anything of the immigration process since I was really young the whole time. Fast forwarding 5 months after we filed the humanitarian application my mother and I were cited to appear at an immigration office infront of an officer. The officer then said we had a month to leave Canada and at that moment I had broken down crying. What about my fiancé , my education , my job and my life. Everything tumbled down in a matter of seconds. We continued the conversation and the officer was very rude and unprofessional the whole time. Very deceiving too. He gave us the choice to leave to England or Colombia and my mom chose England because we would be in life or death danger if returned to Colombia. We then received the one month notice on September 17th 2018 and got ourselves ready. We bought our own tickets sold and gathered as much money as we could. Which wasn’t much. Telling my fiancé of this was the most heartbreaking thing I could’ve ever done. I had finally found a place where I felt safe and I felt like I belonged. Toronto became my home and the only place I knew for a really important part of my life. Fast forwarding to October 16th 2018 we arrived at the airport. Reported to the immigration office and we were given a paper to sign. The paper said “ deportation” which shouldn’t be. Because what the officer said to us was that we were given a removal letter. I asked him plenty of times and he re assured me it was not deportation. Once given the paper to sing it was “ deportation” into which I asked the guy and he said a removal order was a deportation. We left Canada and arrived in London with no plan no money and the last 6 years of our lives in luggage, my mom had gone to travel care since we are homeless with nothing here. They sent us out on a train with 7 luggage’s being carried out by 3 women to a housing options office, to which we dragged everything to, exhausted, dehydrated and hungry only to be told we had to go to another office, dragged everything again hours and hours later we arrived to another housing office and we presented our papers to a person there who told us we were not eligible for any help. My mom broke down in tears and so did I because here we are in a country we do not know. We went from having everything a month ago to nothing today and we were told to leave hopelessly. My mom went to child services since my sister is a minor and they were able to place us in a motel for a few days until we figure out what to do. That is my story. But this is what is happening now.
I am 19 years old right now, I had no idea about the refugee claim or the humanitarian case nor how any of it works. Everything I know now is from researching online and this forum. My plan now is to return to Canada where I have my friends my fiancé who I plan to marry in the future and everything I am attached to. I have asked my mom plenty of times about the status of the application and she says all she’s gotten is a letter saying it was received. Our lawyer is aware of everything going on and has told us to send an update in 3 weeks. It’s been 4 days here in London and I have never been more miserable, I have fallen into a deep depression and I go days with barely anything to eat, I have been crying non stop and I have been harassed by strangers in the area we are staying. My little sister got sick and she is throwing up non stop and does nothing but sleep all day and I think that is because of everything going on.
My question now is how can We get back to Canada. From wht I read the chances of h&c getting approved are very low. But I would like to know our options. Do we have a chance at our case? My little sister was pulled out of 11th grade and pulled from her friends. She was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and my mom is diagnosed with depression. Would that do anything to our case? My fiancé has said that he can sponsor me after we get married but I want to know what would our chances be of getting approved. I personally don’t want to be here. Yes we started from 0 in Canada too but we had an aunt there, we had friends there who helped us when we arrived so we had something there. I am very sorry with how messy this is but I know close to nothing about what is going on. What I explained here is what I have been told from my mom and the lawyer. I am very scared that something will happen to us here and I have started to have suicidal thoughts. I cry myself to sleep every night and my fiancé is having a really hard time as well. He pulled himself from school until next semester because he could not focus and has been crying with me since then. My heart aches because it feels like I don’t belong anywhere. Thank you for reading I hope you guys can help.
I’m November of 2012 my family and I came to Canada from colombia due to danger. My family consists of my mom, my 16 year old sister, and me, 19. My sister and I were both minors when we entered the country, her being 10 and me being 13. We entered in a refugee claim since we are in danger in Colombia due to things my dad has done to my mom and my family. The tricky thing is we have dual citizenship, my mom born in England to colombian parents, and my sister and I born in Colombia but obtained British citizenship due to my moms status. We came because things were awful in Colombia and due to all the stress it has affected me long term. We didn’t go to England because we have no family there, no friends there no connections just the fact that my mom was born there 40 years ago and taken out and moved to Colombia at only 6 months of being born. Continuing our story in Canada, we applied for refugee claim in November 2012 but due to the law changing we became a legacy case waited and waited for an answer for years and years and in June 2017 our lawyer said to my mom that us having British citizenship would be a problem in our refugee application and told her other ways we could get permanent residency. In those long 5 years we got pretty settled. I pretty much grew up in Toronto and so did my sister, we became very attached to the people, our friends and people that became family. We had our lives pretty settled mom had a good paying job with our dream apartment a car and financial stability. I had gotten in a serious relationship with a guy I am now engaged to. In 2018 my mom decided to apply for humanitarian and compassionate grounds since we had no chance on getting the refugee claim. We then waited to have a hearing date and went to remove our case in order to file the H&C application. In doing so we lost our status in Canada. I did not know anything of the immigration process since I was really young the whole time. Fast forwarding 5 months after we filed the humanitarian application my mother and I were cited to appear at an immigration office infront of an officer. The officer then said we had a month to leave Canada and at that moment I had broken down crying. What about my fiancé , my education , my job and my life. Everything tumbled down in a matter of seconds. We continued the conversation and the officer was very rude and unprofessional the whole time. Very deceiving too. He gave us the choice to leave to England or Colombia and my mom chose England because we would be in life or death danger if returned to Colombia. We then received the one month notice on September 17th 2018 and got ourselves ready. We bought our own tickets sold and gathered as much money as we could. Which wasn’t much. Telling my fiancé of this was the most heartbreaking thing I could’ve ever done. I had finally found a place where I felt safe and I felt like I belonged. Toronto became my home and the only place I knew for a really important part of my life. Fast forwarding to October 16th 2018 we arrived at the airport. Reported to the immigration office and we were given a paper to sign. The paper said “ deportation” which shouldn’t be. Because what the officer said to us was that we were given a removal letter. I asked him plenty of times and he re assured me it was not deportation. Once given the paper to sing it was “ deportation” into which I asked the guy and he said a removal order was a deportation. We left Canada and arrived in London with no plan no money and the last 6 years of our lives in luggage, my mom had gone to travel care since we are homeless with nothing here. They sent us out on a train with 7 luggage’s being carried out by 3 women to a housing options office, to which we dragged everything to, exhausted, dehydrated and hungry only to be told we had to go to another office, dragged everything again hours and hours later we arrived to another housing office and we presented our papers to a person there who told us we were not eligible for any help. My mom broke down in tears and so did I because here we are in a country we do not know. We went from having everything a month ago to nothing today and we were told to leave hopelessly. My mom went to child services since my sister is a minor and they were able to place us in a motel for a few days until we figure out what to do. That is my story. But this is what is happening now.
I am 19 years old right now, I had no idea about the refugee claim or the humanitarian case nor how any of it works. Everything I know now is from researching online and this forum. My plan now is to return to Canada where I have my friends my fiancé who I plan to marry in the future and everything I am attached to. I have asked my mom plenty of times about the status of the application and she says all she’s gotten is a letter saying it was received. Our lawyer is aware of everything going on and has told us to send an update in 3 weeks. It’s been 4 days here in London and I have never been more miserable, I have fallen into a deep depression and I go days with barely anything to eat, I have been crying non stop and I have been harassed by strangers in the area we are staying. My little sister got sick and she is throwing up non stop and does nothing but sleep all day and I think that is because of everything going on.
My question now is how can We get back to Canada. From wht I read the chances of h&c getting approved are very low. But I would like to know our options. Do we have a chance at our case? My little sister was pulled out of 11th grade and pulled from her friends. She was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and my mom is diagnosed with depression. Would that do anything to our case? My fiancé has said that he can sponsor me after we get married but I want to know what would our chances be of getting approved. I personally don’t want to be here. Yes we started from 0 in Canada too but we had an aunt there, we had friends there who helped us when we arrived so we had something there. I am very sorry with how messy this is but I know close to nothing about what is going on. What I explained here is what I have been told from my mom and the lawyer. I am very scared that something will happen to us here and I have started to have suicidal thoughts. I cry myself to sleep every night and my fiancé is having a really hard time as well. He pulled himself from school until next semester because he could not focus and has been crying with me since then. My heart aches because it feels like I don’t belong anywhere. Thank you for reading I hope you guys can help.
