The following letter I have sent to my local M.P. Elizabeth May, as well as to Jason Kenney, Minister of Immigration and John Baird, Minister of Foreign Affairs also lastly to the Immigration Section of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico who I hold responsible for this situation I am asking all of you to share this post and to ask your friends to share this post. June 22, 2014 TO: THE HON. ELIZABETH MAY M.P. SAANICH – GULF ISLANDS THE HON. JOHN BAIRD M.P AND MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS THE HON. JASON KENNEY M.P. AND MINSITER OF IMMIGRATION I am writing this letter asking your assistance in a matter of grave importance to my family. My name is Robert Harold Anderson and I am a Canadian Citizen. I was born on August 16th, 1968 in New Westminster, British Columbia at St Mary’s Hospital. My government identification is: • Social insurance number: British Columbia Driver licence number: • Canadian passport number: . I currently reside on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, with my wife and two of my three children. My contact phone numbers are: • Home: 250 537 9677 • Cell: 250 537 7197. It is better to reach me on my cell phone Thursday through Monday during the day. • Work: 250 537 5564. • Email: sunpowersystems1@yahoo. I am not writing about my oldest daughter, Miss Jazmine Elizabeth Anderson Perez, a Canadian Citizen currently residing in Mexico. Jazmine has been forcibly trapped, in Mexico, by the Immigration Section of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico. Jazmine is just 18 years of age. She was born on March 19, 1996 in La Paz, BCS, Mexico and she was granted her Canadian Citizenship while living with me in the Southern Baja. She came to Canada with me and went to high school here on Salt Spring Island at Gulf Island Secondary School. She worked a part time job at a local restaurant. Her Canadian Social Insurance number is Jazmine’s Canadian Passport number is which is valid and she renewed herself in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on the 3rd of October 2012. Jazmine was older than my other two children when I returned to Canada to live and work. She had a harder time adjusting to life here. Plus, Jazmine was in love with a young man from the town where we used to reside. My other two children love it here on Salt Spring Island. My youngest daughter Amara is now a happy Canadian Teenager. My son Jorel qualified for High School Nationals in Freestyle Wrestling last year at just 15 years of age. We allowed Jazmine to travel to Mexico in November 2012 to stay with family, and to visit Diego Armando Flores Villalobos (the young man she is in love with). Jazmine also wanted to finish high school where she had spent the early part of her life. Life happens. My daughter became pregnant by young Diego. Diego reacted like a man and a responsible father. He found a way to provide for my daughter and their upcoming child; sometimes working three jobs to pay for all medicals cost and to support his family. After their son Diego Roberto Flores Anderson was born on August 13, 2013 Diego continued to work up to three jobs at a time in order to provide for his family. Diego is an example of the kind of man that originally came to Canada and worked to make this country great. Hard working, responsible, a loving husband and father. I assumed that because my daughter was a Canadian Citizen that, just like I did with my three children, she could apply for citizenship for her baby at the Canadian Consulate in Cabo San Lucas, BCS, Mexico. It was at this time that I discovered that since 2009 my children were to be treated like second class Canadian Citizens, and if they had children not born in Canada those children would not be Canadian. I called Canadian Immigration in Ottawa after I heard this and was informed that what the Canadian Consulate informed my daughter Jazmine was true; but if she wanted to come to Canada she had only apply for a Temporary Residence Permit for the Child and as she was a Canadian Citizen this would be granted. If she wanted to go the Permanent Resident route for the child it would be granted as she is a Canadian Citizen. As it turns out I was informed falsely; either that or the Canadian Immigration at the Mexican Embassy creates it is own rules. We recommended at the time that Jazmine and Diego get married but they insisted that Jazmine wanted to get married in front of her family in Canada. Jazmine decided that she would like to have her baby christened in Canada this summer. The whole family wanted Jazmine to come with my grandson and her common law husband to Canada this summer and stay at least a month. Jazmine asked Mr. Ronald Adams, a retired Canadian Businessmen with a home in Baja to be the Godfather. I have known Ron for 20 years and he has known my daughter since her birth. When Ron retired he sold his Financial Investment Company to the son of the Conservative Member of Parliament from Salmon Arm, British Columbia where Ron has his home in Canada. As Godmother my daughter asked my cousin Tammy Jennings, a resident of the British Properties in West Vancouver and wife of a prominent real estate developer and retired professional hockey player. Tammy and I grew up together as we are first cousins and my daughter has always loved her. My mother (Jazmine’s paternal grandmother), Charlotte Grace Van Dyke will fly up from Tennessee with her husband for the event. Charlotte is a Canadian Citizen in good standing who was born in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. My older sister, Angela Joy Thomson (nee Anderson), also a Canadian Citizen in good standing, born in Vancouver, British Columbia; offered as a christening gift to pay for their plane flights and their visit. Angela wrote an invitation letter for my grandson and for his father Diego for immigration. Angela provided the Immigration section of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico with a copy of her passport. My daughter, again I remind you and I hope you will help me remind the Immigration section of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico, is a Canadian Citizen. She helped her common law husband Diego fill out his Visa application, and the Visa application for my grandson Diego Jr. A Mexican Passport had to be obtained for my grandson. As I have afore mentioned, the government of Canada since 2009 treats my daughter as a second class Canadian Citizen and my Grandson, a baby with my blood, is deemed not a Canadian Citizen. Their particulars are: • My grandson is Diego Roberto Flores Anderson o Mexican Passport number: Birthdate: August 13th 2013. • The father of my grandson is Diego Armando Flores Villalobos, a Mexican Citizen o Mexican Passport the number: o Birthdate: March 20, 1992. The paperwork was sent to the Immigration Section of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico City. The Visas were to be processed together. My daughter was, as seems to be the normal course of action for the government employees working in that office, informed that the process would take 10 days, and she was (eventually) provided with process tracking numbers. The two immigration tracking numbers were: • 201405529MXMETRV25772, and • 20140529MXMETRV25773. More than a month went by and my daughter got a little impatient and sent an inquiry to the Immigration Section of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico City. This is the response she received. As you might note it does not even give the name of the Immigration official who sent it. Madam, Please be advised that your application has been finalized. We have sent you correspondence to the address you stated on your application on June 9, 2014. Please be patient and wait for the mail to arrive before requesting more information. We thank you for your patience and for keeping your correspondence to a minimum. Regards / Cordialement Immigration Section / Section dImmigration (RA) Canadian Embassy / Ambassade du Canada Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra # 193 Col. Granada C.P. 11520 mexico.gc.ca * Please include your file number, complete name and date of birth in all your enquiries. The first passport to arrive back by DHL was that of my daughters common law husband Diego. His Visa application was refused. On Friday Diego and my daughter (who again I remind everyone who is reading this is a Canadian Citizen, though according to current Canadian law a second class one) learned that my Grandson, THE CHILD OF A CANADIAN CITIZEN, was refused entry into Canada. I am not an immigrant to Canada. I was born in this country. My father was born in Hardesty, Alberta. My mother was born in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. My grandparents on both sides were born in Canada. My family has been Canadian on my father’s side for six generation and longer than that on my mother’s. My daughter, who is a Canadian Citizen, has hundreds of relatives who were born in Canada and are Canadian Citizens. On the little Salt Spring Island where I reside and work, Jazmine has a mother, a father (myself), a brother, a sister, two aunts, three first cousins, two second cousins. One of the second cousins has five children and a grandchild. My family is not even originally from this area. There are a lot more of us in other parts of Canada. I will be beseeching all of our relatives to begin writing letters to their local Members of Parliament, to the Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and to the Immigration Section of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico City. Is it now the policy of the Immigration Section of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico City to keep Canadian Citizens prisoners in a foreign country through their spouses and children? My daughter is Canadian Citizen but she is unable to see her family without being separated from her child of less than a year and her common law husband. Is this how heartless and cruel our government employees, our servants of the people whose salaries are provided by the tax payers of my mother country, treat their citizens? MY DAUGHTER IS 18 YEARS OLD. LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HERSELF, BUT SHE IS HELD CAPTIVE IN MEXICO BY THE DECISIONS OF THE IMMIGRATION SECTION OF THE CANADIAN EMBASSY IN MEXICO CITY. I am asking that this matter be investigated and that I be provided with an explanation of the behaviour of the Immigration Section of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico City and their treatment of a Canadian Citizen - namely my daughter Jazmine Elizabeth Anderson Perez. I wish to know how they justify declining entry to Canada of my grandson and my daughter’s common law husband. How many people are allowed entry in Canada by Immigration Section of the Canadian Embassy each year who do not have family with deep roots in Canada, like my daughter has. How many are allowed in with no roots? I actually know many here on this little island where I live. How is it that the Immigration Section of the Canadian Embassy denied entry to the child of a Canadian Citizen who is the grandson and great grandson of Canadian citizens, and was invited by family – ALSO a Canadian Citizen? I am asking for your assistance in clearing this matter up. I will be posting this letter to my Facebook page and asking that my friends and relatives share my daughters experience with the Immigration Section of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico City in Mexico, and that they ask their friends to share it as well. I believe that when Canadian Citizens are treated the way my daughter has been treated that it should be brought to the light of day. Also, any further communications from the Ministry of Immigration and Naturalization or the Immigration Section of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico City, who I hold responsible for this situation, either positive or negative will be made public. I will also be attempting to contact the press about this matter. Regards ROBERT HAROLD ANDERSON A CANADIAN CITIZEN AND FATHER OF A CANADIAN CITIZEN
Posted on: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 06:07:40 +0000
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