Immigrants costing taxpayers $16 to $23 Billion annually.

[GP_Matt]

A friend of mine was trying to bring his wife and kid over for years. It was a huge mess because immigration decided they didn't think their child was their own. They wanted a DNA test to verify his paternity. They took too long approving the data so their medical documents expired and they had to start a bunch of stuff over again.
It all came up because she traveled back to Egypt with her infant but the Egyptian immigration officer in Egypt didn't document the child so Canada figured it was a child smuggling case. They went so far as to get the surveillance footage from the airport showing her with the child but immigration wouldn't accept it.

It was a pretty painful process.

[Azure]

Well if it were actually a case of child smuggling, I'm not sure the surveillance video would prove anything. They could easily have taken the child as their own and just took him along.

I know that wasn't the case, and I understand that it was probably frustrating and painful to make work, but part of me appreciates a bit that the immigration people are so thorough when they make decisions.

I just think that if the 'mom/dad' are accepted, the children, if proven to be theirs, should easily be accepted too. We want families here that want to put down roots.

[GirlySports]

Foreign spouses face tighter rules in Canada

If a foreign spouse's marriage in Canada does not last two years, he or she could be deported, according to a proposed new federal rule.
The Conservatives believe a two-year probationary period for foreign spouses would prevent men and women from getting away with immigration fraud by marrying Canadians just to get into the country.