Hi All
This is quite an urgent matter.
We lost our Mom to cancer in late September of 2017.
My father who is almost 80years old traveled to his home country of Pakistan this year in February and has just informed us he's getting married to a woman who is my mother's niece! I have to mention that while my mom was alive she would send money to her niece via western union to help her (my mom helped a few of her relatives as was possible for her) I always felt uneasy about this because other family members would tell my Mom that she's being taken advantage of but my mom was just a very giving and religious person so that influenced her choices greatly. While the news of their marriage is a shock itself I'm just as concerned about the woman's intentions. She is around 60 or 65 years old. She has been widowed for a couple of years and she has adult children, one of whom is her married daughter with 3 kids that lives with her. When I spoke to her and expressed my concern that it seemed a bit weird to be marrying a man she's called "uncle" for the last 50 years, she began to say that it's not a romantic situation, that she "just" wants to live in Canada and not to worry because she will manage herself once she get here and she will eventually find her own place so her kids can somehow get here as well!!! NATURALLY I got really angry and told her she can't do that! I tried my best to explain to her that it's fraud, it's illegal and unethical to use someone like that. She said my dad's an old man and he has feelings for her and it's perfectly fine to basically (YUCK) let him have what he wants and she gets what she wants. I had a huge argument with this woman and things turned ugly quite quickly. I've been harassed by her and her daughters via phone calls at all hours. I made the mistake of telling them I would file a report about this and she's threatening me and my children with physical harm now (my kids are toddlers!) I've told my father exactly what her plans are and how im being harassed (and my sisters have also been harassed by them) and he didn't believe me, he thinks I don't want him to "be happy". Wtf. I've offered to set him up on singles sites if he really wants but I tried to make him understand that at this age sponsoring someone from Pakistan doesn't seem very wise and because it's barely been 6 months since my mom passed I really and sincerely feel he's being taken advantage of! Please if you have any advice or suggestions as to what I should be doing to protect not just him but my own family! I don't know how much any of these details matter to immigration.
This is quite an urgent matter.
We lost our Mom to cancer in late September of 2017.
My father who is almost 80years old traveled to his home country of Pakistan this year in February and has just informed us he's getting married to a woman who is my mother's niece! I have to mention that while my mom was alive she would send money to her niece via western union to help her (my mom helped a few of her relatives as was possible for her) I always felt uneasy about this because other family members would tell my Mom that she's being taken advantage of but my mom was just a very giving and religious person so that influenced her choices greatly. While the news of their marriage is a shock itself I'm just as concerned about the woman's intentions. She is around 60 or 65 years old. She has been widowed for a couple of years and she has adult children, one of whom is her married daughter with 3 kids that lives with her. When I spoke to her and expressed my concern that it seemed a bit weird to be marrying a man she's called "uncle" for the last 50 years, she began to say that it's not a romantic situation, that she "just" wants to live in Canada and not to worry because she will manage herself once she get here and she will eventually find her own place so her kids can somehow get here as well!!! NATURALLY I got really angry and told her she can't do that! I tried my best to explain to her that it's fraud, it's illegal and unethical to use someone like that. She said my dad's an old man and he has feelings for her and it's perfectly fine to basically (YUCK) let him have what he wants and she gets what she wants. I had a huge argument with this woman and things turned ugly quite quickly. I've been harassed by her and her daughters via phone calls at all hours. I made the mistake of telling them I would file a report about this and she's threatening me and my children with physical harm now (my kids are toddlers!) I've told my father exactly what her plans are and how im being harassed (and my sisters have also been harassed by them) and he didn't believe me, he thinks I don't want him to "be happy". Wtf. I've offered to set him up on singles sites if he really wants but I tried to make him understand that at this age sponsoring someone from Pakistan doesn't seem very wise and because it's barely been 6 months since my mom passed I really and sincerely feel he's being taken advantage of! Please if you have any advice or suggestions as to what I should be doing to protect not just him but my own family! I don't know how much any of these details matter to immigration.
