Here are some quote received from our two agencies:
While the intent of the Bill C-14 was to help adopted children become citizens faster/easier- what in fact has resulted is no such thing....It is undoubtedly a "feel good" piece of legislation. While the hope was that this would implement a less complicated and automatic stream for adopted children to become CDN citizens - the reality is that the legislation has only brought into place a new application process with it's own time line, fees, and complications. ... as the ramifications of this new legislation have been coming back to CDN IMM officers, this new process has in fact created a few monsters of its own. One predictable and confirmed response by the countries children are adopted from is that they will not allow their children to depart on CDN passports.
The two steps that may be eliminated under the new procedures are the application for a Visa and the child's foreign immigration medical, but that will only happen in some cases. The new citizenship law may not meet the high expectations adopting parents have for it. The law will not grant "automatic citizenship." Citizenship will be granted abroad if there is an adoption order in place before coming home and if the Immigration Officer is satisfied that certain requirements have been met.
On top of that - there is no appeal allowed for the new process. If you're rejected, tough beans.
So as I assumed, so far I am not finding anything good about this new Bill. Another beaurocratic procedure with empty promises leaving people confused and hopeful for nothing.
While the intent of the Bill C-14 was to help adopted children become citizens faster/easier- what in fact has resulted is no such thing....It is undoubtedly a "feel good" piece of legislation. While the hope was that this would implement a less complicated and automatic stream for adopted children to become CDN citizens - the reality is that the legislation has only brought into place a new application process with it's own time line, fees, and complications. ... as the ramifications of this new legislation have been coming back to CDN IMM officers, this new process has in fact created a few monsters of its own. One predictable and confirmed response by the countries children are adopted from is that they will not allow their children to depart on CDN passports.
The two steps that may be eliminated under the new procedures are the application for a Visa and the child's foreign immigration medical, but that will only happen in some cases. The new citizenship law may not meet the high expectations adopting parents have for it. The law will not grant "automatic citizenship." Citizenship will be granted abroad if there is an adoption order in place before coming home and if the Immigration Officer is satisfied that certain requirements have been met.
On top of that - there is no appeal allowed for the new process. If you're rejected, tough beans.
So as I assumed, so far I am not finding anything good about this new Bill. Another beaurocratic procedure with empty promises leaving people confused and hopeful for nothing.
1 comment:
The issue of what passport the kids can depart on seems to be another area where no one agrees - apparently the Ethiopian Embassy in
Canada is telling adoptive parents (and their MPs) that the kids *can* depart on a Cdn passport. I know that for US citizens, their kids use Ethiopian passports too, but I don't know if that's because they have to, or just because it's easier/faster that way. It will be interesting to see how this all pans out.
june
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