tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848541039913019341.post4052303308335626837..comments2023-10-01T06:34:39.919-06:00Comments on Random Musings of a Tormented Mind: Even more sillinessKGouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537080163900313558noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848541039913019341.post-88404916207192675412012-04-17T09:03:02.785-06:002012-04-17T09:03:02.785-06:00You don't have to be confrontational at all. J...You don't have to be confrontational at all. Just explain that you are frustrated by the conflicting information you are receiving and are having difficulty getting your son's citizenship documentation sorted out. They are there to help people with problems like this. That is one of the purposes of a constituency office.<br /><br />A lot of people are surprised when they find out that the federal government is so dysfunctional, disorganized and have no real policy or procedures for some pretty surprising situations. Your lucky that you don't need a document translated. I had that situation once and every person I talked to had a different version of what was required. My MP's office sorted it out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848541039913019341.post-6522092735696304592012-04-16T22:09:50.519-06:002012-04-16T22:09:50.519-06:00I would love to go down there and speak to the Exe...I would love to go down there and speak to the Executive Assistant in person but I want to get all the paperwork going first. I am supposed to get a letter back when Nova Scotia receives my package, giving me a file number for my son's certificate application, and I will think about going down there. I am a big chicken. I HATE face to face confrontation, but I started out by writing a letter to my MPs office on the weekend so that I could report the date and time I got the phone call and explain exactly what went down. I included quotes and links from the Canada Immigration website. If nothing else, I want to educate the person I spoke to about what she said regarding my son's status. However, with the run-around I have received over the years, I'm not surprised she is confused either. I will give her that at least, but not the parts being rude to me and refusing to listen. <br /><br />One thing I wrote in a previous post that is still hilarious to me all these years later is when I called Canada Immigration to question what the other agent told me about needing to denounce my son's British citizenship before he becomes a Canadian. I have seen people at the Calgary airport holding many passports and asking the control desk 'Which one do you want?' lol. Since Canada is part of the Commonwealth, it did not make sense to me that he would have to denounce. My area is FULL of ex-pats from Britian due to the military bases in Alberta and I am sure they did not all give up their citizenship.<br /><br />So the next agent told me to go to a website while we were on the phone together. He told me that 'Canada does not allow Dual Citizenship with ANY country'. I could not believe my ears because at the bottom of the link it gave me, I saw a line saying 'List of countries Canada allows Dual Citizenship with'. I clicked it and the list was huge! Great Britain being on there of course. I told him what I was reading and he could not believe it! He asked me where I found that info and I said 'ON the link YOU gave me' lol. GOD. It's really ridiculous.KGouldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537080163900313558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848541039913019341.post-46424490512401401412012-04-16T21:53:17.717-06:002012-04-16T21:53:17.717-06:00I would go to your MP's office in person and e...I would go to your MP's office in person and explain the situation. These technocrats don't know anything half the time. Most MPs have contacts inside each department that can help. Baring that I would contact Jason Kenney's office and go from there. This is nuts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848541039913019341.post-21870675076891986352012-04-16T21:35:00.065-06:002012-04-16T21:35:00.065-06:00I try hard not to think things like that but somet...I try hard not to think things like that but sometimes I can't help it. I acknowledge that a lot of this is my own fault for not following up on it more but I flew back and forth to London in 1998, 2000, 20005 and 2006 with my son, and he flew alone in 2011 and then has this next trip coming up in 2012. I have never had a serious problem, just had a bit of a longer wait while the customs heads checked my paperwork. After I waited in line there it would literally take like 1 minute for them to look at my original birth certificates (I have my actual real original BC still somehow) and then they would apologize that I was sent to their desk. Now that I want the official piece of paper so my son can do it alone and skip that second customs line, I keep getting the run around. <br /><br />With any luck, the paper might be back before his flight home and he can let them know that his mom is standing just outside the doors with the certificate in hand and they can come look at that if they want.<br /><br />Another thing is the changed rules. My boss's daughter was born in Scotland and she still is considered a permanent resident because she too has had a complete run around. Her mom was born in Canada and only lived overseas for a couple years, much like me. But because they made her mom fill out a Landed Immigrant card on the plane, she is officially in the system as a Permanent Resident, even though she should be a Canadian citizen. She is almost 40 and cannot vote in provincial and federal elections, etc unless she goes through the whole thing of applying FOR citizenship.<br /><br />Yet, she was able to get a social insurance number back in the 80s with no trouble. My son cannot get one now without this certificate. So some rules changed along the way but I honestly did not think that my son would be barred from working when he has lived here since 1998 with his Canadian parent. He can deliver papers but that's about it. Very odd how it can work these days.KGouldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537080163900313558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848541039913019341.post-25852101892329786032012-04-16T18:38:40.301-06:002012-04-16T18:38:40.301-06:00You should have claimed refugee status from an Isl...You should have claimed refugee status from an Islamic nation that openly supports terrorism against the free world then you would have been granted full citizenship with free health care, housing, food, clothing, extended health benefits such as dental care, free selective abortion if you wanted to choose the sex of your baby, benefits of affirmative action, protection under discrimination laws in case your felling are hurt and free education!<br /><br />Just saying….it’s works pretty good here in Canada if you ask me…..!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com