I was born and raised in Canada, in fact we are 8th generation, something that very few Canadians can claim. I grew up in a family and a neighbourhood where everyone was welcome, where we loved you no matter what color your skin is, no matter how much or little money your family had. I grew up thinking that this was the way of the whole world, equal and fair. So it came to a huge disappointment to me when I married an African man and discovered that in fact our world, and Canada for that matter, is a racist ball of hate. Einstein said it best when he said that there is only one race, the Human Race.
So why in God’s name can I not get a damn visa to bring my husband to Canada? Is he too poor and you think that since Canada is so great that he will ruin our reputation? Are you just worried that he will come here and see that our government is in fact horrible and go spread that news around the world? Wake up people. If I, a Canadian citizen, fall in love with a person who makes me happy, who respects and loves me, I believe that I have the constitutional right to live in my own country and not be forced to live abroad because you assholes won’t give my own husband a visa.
I grew up being proud to say that I am Canadian, but guess what, Harper and his Bush obsession has thrown our reputation down the crapper. Now I might as well be American, or some nationality that nobody has ever heard of. —Sick and Tired
This article appears in Mar 31 – Apr 6, 2011.
And the 2011 “Raggie” for Best Fake Bitch Written By A 16 Year Old goes to…
“Now I might as well be American” … ouch!
i don’t like how you generalize canada or canadians being a “racist ball of hate.”
you need a protest sign or something.
or maybe do a little research.
find out more about visas.
from my personal experience, i started doing research about getting a holiday working visa to go to australia for a year (which i know is slightly different) and let me tell you, it’s not the easiest thing in the world to do. and so it shouldn’t be, if you really think about it. there is a lot of qualifications/requirements.
this is a touchy subject :/
‘Bush obsession’…lol.
So, *why* in God’s name can’t you get that visa, OP? They don’t block people for fun. They don’t give a shit what colour he is in the great grey grinding machine that is CIC, they care about valid documents, reliable identification, whether or not he has ties that prove he is going back home, or a criminal record. Have they flat out said no, or is the office with the paperwork overloaded and slow?
I’ve done this happy immigration dance, thanks, and there are some nice big omissions clouded up in feet-stamping. Also ‘8th generation’? Something few Canadians can claim? You realize how that sounds next to your complaints against racism right? ‘Oh, I’m more Canadian, I should get what I waaant’.
Well said swamp donkey. My friend’s partner just got his permanent residency. It was long and complicated, but it’s done.
i agree completely, with Swampy ^
i couldnt find the right way to word it but you layed it out there just the way i was thinking it in my head
They can’t get that VISA because it takes time. It takes time and the policies are strict. It’s not guaranteed just because you marry a foreigner. I know two people who either married an american or is an american who married a canadian. It took a lot of time to get the papers through. In fact, one friend was expecting and her husband wasn’t allowed in the country for most of her pregnancy. They’re waiting for the papers so he can work here, but for now he has to go back to the states for a day every once and a while and then come back.
Thankfully, he was allowed to come into the country to be there for the birth of his son.
It’s a major misnomer that it’s easy to get into canada just because you’ve married a canadian. Unfortunately that gurantees shit.
You want to marry an African, good for you. Y A W N …why am I suppose to care ?
There are legal ways to get him into the country. MArriage shouldn’t & isn’t a quickie pass to Canadian Citizenship. I for one say right on Gov of Canada.
If it was the amount of people marrying for a cash incentive to get their ” spouse” into the country would be astromnomical.
Which is why you need to go through the process.
OR
You can move to Africa & live there. Chances are, you will be the one who also has to go through a ‘process’.
Ain’t life a bitch.
was your great great great great grandpappy johnny canuck from the great red mud? 🙂
i won’t bother to comment on this, as some will say that i’m being either a bigot or racist. and you know who you are. other than that, live your own lives, and let those others live theirs.
So if our reputation is so bad, why does he want to move here? If you are embarassed by the current administration, you might be happier in the country of your husband/partner!
only thing i will say o.p., if you don’t like it here, ten move to where your hubby is from, and see how wonderful it is there. tunisia is sending a bumper crop of lazy mother fuckers our way this year, and it has nothing to do with gadaffyduck. they just wanna come here, because canadian chicks are just plain fucking stupid to marry them, and when they get that wonderful citizenship, off they go, leaving behind a pregnant young scmuck of a welfare mom. thank you, fucking no, we don’t want you or them lazy good for nothings here.
And you didn’t check the immigration laws before you got married – why? A simple check would have informed you and hubby what needs to be done before immigration. There’s no big secret. BTW immigration laws were in effect long before Bush and Harper, even before Wilson and Borden (circa WWI).
if you have your heart set on this dude ..tell him to go back to his country ..get on a boat “lose” his ID and clain he’ll be tortured/persecuted if he get’s sent back..voila citizenship…and benefits to boot..hell they’ll even put you up in a hotel till you’re all settled in…
the suckster will remain to gaurd the henhouse from mm, and the other one, whose name should never be said aloud.
I’m married to an American.
Back in the old days (almost thirty years ago) it was a relatively painless process for Americans and Canadians to marry each other and take up residence in each others’ country.
I entered the U.S. on a fiance’s VISA one month before our wedding. I did have to submit some documentation from Canada before that VISA was granted. After the wedding, we paid a visit to the INS and the officer asked me the standard questions the best of which was “Why did you marry your wife?” to which I answered without missing a beat “Because I love her” which made my wife giggle but which didn’t soften the stone-faced demeanor of the INS officer. He was a decent chap though and when we were done he stood up and shook my hand and said “Welcome to America”.
When we decided to move north a number of years later we just showed up in Canada and went to the Immigration office and the officer said it was normal to apply from outside the country but she exercised her discretionary powers and granted my wife temporary status on the spot and started the Landed Immigrant application. My wife didn’t have to leave the country to complete the process.
She retains her U.S. citizenship and votes in U.S. federal elections and enjoys living in the REAL land of milk and honey.
That was then. This is now . . .
In these post “War on Terror” days it has become much more difficult to fall in love with a foreigner and marry them and bring them home although I suspect if the OP’s husband was a wealthy businessman from Germany it wouldn’t be too difficult.
Good luck on your quest for a settled life in Canada OP. You’ve already got the “happily ever after” part taken care of.
Just because they got refused a visa doesnt make the government racist.
Its incredibly difficult to enter this country and live here, well it was for me anyway and i’m not even a visible minority. In fact i know a few people back home who were refused entry to canada because they don’t have a job lined up, viable trade or any good reason to be accepted.
Thats immigration, if I could have married to enter Canada legally then I would have proposed a long time ago.
oooh the raggies, what are the other nominations this year?
“Its incredibly difficult to enter this country ” tell me about it.
WAY TO NOT LET ANYTHING GO YOU POOP HEAD. (not you anglo)
Does immigration canada still do the whole points system thing?
I remember I took the info test on their website a few years back and found out I didn’t qualify for entry into Canada. AHAHAHA.
Also: my dad had no problems back in the day getting permanent residency status in the states — he had a job lined up when he went though. Only problem was if you were a permanent resident you were eligible for the draft, and his birthdate ended up being called during a draft lottery. Once he was in the army, they tried to convince him to give up his Canadian citizenship (you couldn’t have dual back then) and basically threw American citizenship at him. He refused because he said he didn’t want to apply to come back home to live. They didn’t like that very much.
my mother was born in the states..and they won’t give me a green card..not enough points..
Yeah PK I had to do the point system, was over 3 years ago when I made my application so I cant tell you the specifics, in the end we ended up just getting a lawyer.
Shit, in the old days, martym, it was pretty easy to get one of those if you had someone sponsoring you. My dad still has a copy of his last green card. He got in and got his GC within a couple months.
This was 1964, though.
Thing *is* there’s SO many people who want to get into the US and Canada that they can both afford to be picky, unfortunately.
i remember the days mr. farmer speaks about. it was a different world
Wow…..holy fuck LIFESUCKS. I didn’t know you were one of THOSE people. How dissapointing.
….I’ve always gotten a kick out of reading your stuff but this time….wow. Pretty fucking sad, Lifey…that you might as well wear a white hood.
certain african countries are on the lists of places that have a long history of scams that feed off of canadians good will…many of them want you to sponsor them when applying to get into canada,then ask you for money…twenty dollars here,twenty dollars there,it adds up…so,before anyone thinks canada is racist concerning this topic is misinformed!
“certain african countries are on the lists of places that have a long history of scams that feed off of Canadians good will” Lol they do this is Canada as well, but you never hear about that do you.
I’m glad someone else said it Z …
This bitch is as real as unicorns and leprechauns.
OP, if you want to bring him to Canada, try Hants County.
8th generation Canadian? Seems to me that unless there is native blood in your lineage then at some point there is immigration in it too. Part of my lineage goes back a lot further than 8 generations but does that really make me more Canadian than someone who’s family immigrated here anytime later than mine? The native blood in my family tree is at odds with the definition of a TRUE Canadian.
But then again “Native-Americans” are immigrants too as their ancestors crossed the Bering Strait.
Soooooooo…..where did you meet this Afrikaner guy? Was he studying in Canada? Did he not understand the type of visa he held? Did anybody not raise the question of immigration before you bedded (er, wedded) the bloke? Geezuz, let’s start at the beginning….I was born and raised in Canada, in fact we are 8th generation, something that very few Canadians can claim…..say’s fucking who?
Z, if you look through LS’s comment history, you’ll see all kinds of choice gems like that. He’s a small-minded jerk and a barely coherent one, at that. Now if you want to get a real kick out of his comments, stay tuned while he flies into a profanity-laced nonsensical fury trying to justify himself. That’s always a treat to watch.
Bro Tim, using your argument, anyone living anywhere else in the world besides Africa is an immigrant too since all of humanity began there and all subsequent civilizations in other parts of the world are the result of human migration. Since First Nation North Americans were the first humans to inhabit our part of the planet many thousands of years before other cultures arrived here and took it from them, they consider the rest of us immigrants no matter when our ancestors arrived here because theirs predate ours by millennia. But we are all here now, and because the by the collective efforts of all who came before us we have managed to make a pretty good go of it people from all over the planet will continue to flock here.
We are all immigrants, coming to Earth from God’s heart. Lawl jk. I was born in Canada so that makes me 100% Canadian :D!
Oh gee. That’s nice.
LOL
Finally Meow and Z see!
The Bering Strait theory still hasn’t produced any proof. I cannot help but crack up when someone whips out the ol’ Bering Strait theory. Everyone loves a conspiracy.
North Atlantic ice edge corridor theory, there are many similarities in European stoneage tools & what developed across North America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean_the…
… what’s your point …
I thought there was differing theories on the subject regarding recent bone discoveries in the americas.
In “The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey”, a book and documentary by Spencer Wells, an American geneticist and anthropologist, who uses techniques and theories of genetics and evolutionary biology to trace the geographical dispersal of early human migrations out of Africa, he has established modern genetic links from the blood living people around the world tracing their common ancestors and linking them all back to the migration of homo sapiens from Africa to the rest of the planet, that show we are ALL of African ancestry. Our path around the globe was first embarked upon when drought in Africa forced migration to other areas of the planet, sending out the ‘seeds of humanity’ that have evolved into racial diversity according to the environment each settled in. So we really are connected, at least genetically, to all the children of the earth.
CIC aren’t the ones processing her hubby’s Visa application. That would be the Embassy he’s supposed to submit his paperwork to. Coming from Africa, you’re looking at a 2-3 year wait standard to process the application, probably longer. If they ask you for clarification or further documentation at the embassy, it’s not optional for you to reply. If you don’t reply, you go to the bottom of the list or worse, bounced completely out of the rotation.
Hire a lawyer and start all over again. And don’t try the refugee route after applying for a spousal visa. They don’t react well to that sort of thing.
One of my great-grandmothers was a First Nations woman who married into the Scottish side of my family tree.
If I can ever get my “status” card I’m going to ship all of you immigrants back to where you came from.
Good luck with that status card! It’s really hard to get status if the relative with status is dead. 🙁
I qualify, but my grandmother died so it’s almost impossible.
I wouldn’t bother anyway. i don’t identify with the culture, and unless you can convince a band to take your ass in, it doesn’t really do shit all for you.
Though. That didn’t stop NGF from telling the INAC lady hiring aboriginal people that I was aboriginal. Really fun telling her I wasn’t when she called to follow up on why I didn’t submit an application.
Fucking fatty!
Heh Heh – See what happens when the original Border Services guards all got their jobs because they were related to the band council. j/k >; )
Casinos and tax-free tobacco Comandante, that’s where the real payback lies.
Vengeance is a cold-ass muhfugger.
I’m with Commandante on that notion. When people bitch at me about related politics my usual retort is, “If you don’t like it go back to where you came from.” Tends to shut them up.
And, PK, INAC doesn’t hire Indians. The Indians just keep INAC in business.