I know the agony of such a decision. My wife initially applied for PR in August 2014. Her father passed away in November 2014 and she made the hard decision to leave Canada to go bury her father and mourn with her family. She had been here on a one-entry visitor visa, and when I tried to get her back after the funeral, she was denied as she no longer met the definition of "visitor". I was outraged, consulted with a lawyer and expressed the ridiculousness of the situation to my MP. Our 6 month old daughter went with her as we had no one to care for her while I worked. So here we were, doing everything legally, and only through a tragic family event, had to abandon the PR process and face the denial of her reentry to Canada with our Canadian-born daughter. So all of this "family first" garbage from the government is nonsense. They were keeping my wife and daughter from me.fabianonetto said:
After an exhaustive effort to comply with the "visitor" requirements (done all by myself, by the way, since the lawyer and consultants said it was unlikely they could get it approved), we were able to get an approval for her return to Canada under a one-entry visitor visa again (even though I had gotten her mother and brother multiple-entry visitor visas, go figure) in January 2015. Life happened, and after getting a student visa while she completed her studies, we reapplied for PR in Feb 2016. Thankfully, we are almost to the end, just awaiting the landing interview letter.
I hope at some point they change the rules regarding immediate family deaths and allow those grieved to attend funerals without losing status in Canada.
