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I haven't posted in a while. I don't want to whine or trouble people. I just want to say a couple things as to my emotional state.
I just want to see my wife. I just cannot understand or appreciate why she can't come here and apply to be a permanent resident from within Canada. Many people do it. The only reason I can't is because CIC is brutal in their requirements for temporary resident visas. China and Canada do not enjoy a visa free relationship. She can't even come here as part of a tour group to go skiing.
CIC does its job quite well, keeping Canada white and European since 1994.
The best part of this, is they will hold the fact that she has not visited me, or met my friends in person against us when we apply for her Permanent Residence. The amount of confoundery and political flipflopping in the applications would make Joseph Heller spin in his grave.
In Heller's own words in his novel Catch-22:
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," Yossarian observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
By the impressive amount of bureaucracy Canada has concocted around immigration policy, it pretty much means, like the US Army in Catch-22, they can do anything they want and get away with it.
It serves no purpose to keep spouses apart for months and years. Allowing somenone's spouse to be with them does not put undue stress on infastructure, because the sponsor is already in Canada, and in theory already has a place to live. Fast tracking these applications would open up more time to reduce the backlog.
They can't do it though because the world is packed with unscrupulous assholes who will marry their own sisters to get into this country. So a few bad apples blow it for the rest of us. Illegal immigration hurts law abiding people in that it makes the process of people being together that much harder.
As much as I hate it and want to cry about it, I appreciate the need for the process. I just wish I could see her quicker....and that it was less mired in bureaucracy. Spouses should be able to go to an embassy or consulate with pictures and other evidence, be interviewed on the spot and issued the visa the same day.
Oh well. I suppose in the grand scheme 6 months isn't that long. If I was a soldier we would be apart longer and more often. I understand their anguish now...
I just want to see my wife. I just cannot understand or appreciate why she can't come here and apply to be a permanent resident from within Canada. Many people do it. The only reason I can't is because CIC is brutal in their requirements for temporary resident visas. China and Canada do not enjoy a visa free relationship. She can't even come here as part of a tour group to go skiing.
CIC does its job quite well, keeping Canada white and European since 1994.
The best part of this, is they will hold the fact that she has not visited me, or met my friends in person against us when we apply for her Permanent Residence. The amount of confoundery and political flipflopping in the applications would make Joseph Heller spin in his grave.
In Heller's own words in his novel Catch-22:
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," Yossarian observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
By the impressive amount of bureaucracy Canada has concocted around immigration policy, it pretty much means, like the US Army in Catch-22, they can do anything they want and get away with it.
It serves no purpose to keep spouses apart for months and years. Allowing somenone's spouse to be with them does not put undue stress on infastructure, because the sponsor is already in Canada, and in theory already has a place to live. Fast tracking these applications would open up more time to reduce the backlog.
They can't do it though because the world is packed with unscrupulous assholes who will marry their own sisters to get into this country. So a few bad apples blow it for the rest of us. Illegal immigration hurts law abiding people in that it makes the process of people being together that much harder.
As much as I hate it and want to cry about it, I appreciate the need for the process. I just wish I could see her quicker....and that it was less mired in bureaucracy. Spouses should be able to go to an embassy or consulate with pictures and other evidence, be interviewed on the spot and issued the visa the same day.
Oh well. I suppose in the grand scheme 6 months isn't that long. If I was a soldier we would be apart longer and more often. I understand their anguish now...