Person to care for their disabled daughter this summer

Photo By Caroline Lepage
Chantal Gaudreau poses with the photo of his daughter with a disability while that person is in the school. She captures the school holidays, a time of year where it is very difficult to find adequate resources to Drummondville.

Caroline Lepage

Friday, February 23, 2018 01:00

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Friday, February 23, 2018 01:00

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DRUMMONDVILLE | parents who are unable to find someone to look after their daughter suffering from cerebral palsy during the summer to launch a cry from the heart for her uncle and aunt from Cuba can come to help them.

Chantal Gaudreau and her husband, Jose Luis Prieto Diaz, cannot afford to stop working during the school holidays of their daughter, Jessica, Maria Prieto, suffering from cerebral palsy severe.

However, they are unable to find someone to care for them. During some summers, they were sent in his paternal family in Cuba. But the parents and the small-bored for two months and it has become complicated to travel with it due to all the equipment to carry.

For three years, they have rather attempted to bring his uncle, aunt and their child in Cuba to take care of it.

“They all know the exercises to do with it,” says Chantal Gaudreau.

However, despite several requests, Immigration Canada refused visa applications.

Several restraints

“It would be much more simple and pleasant if a member of the family (i.e. his uncle), who is in Cuba can obtain a tourist visa for canada in order to be able to offer assistance and support to the family in Quebec,” explains the pediatrician Ruben Arévalo in a letter to the Immigration department.

However, the application for temporary resident visa (TRV) to the members of the cuban family still comes to be denied. According to the ministry, some persons who have been granted a TRV seek to remain in Canada, even after their visas expired.

“I’m ready to put my house up as collateral to ensure that they will not remain here. It is inhuman, illogical and discriminatory to assume that they will not go away, ” says the one who has provided the department with a petition of about 700 signatures.

No chance

“[…] the applicant has not been able to convince the agents to Havana that he was firmly established in his country and that he had the necessary funds to meet his needs during his stay, ” replied the minister of Immigration Ahmed Hussen.

The lawyer in immigration law, Stéphane Handfield, said that it is very difficult for several years to obtain a tourist visa for the Cuban people.

According to him, the situation persists because the border Agency of Canada shall not expel a Cuban visiting here who refuses to return to his country. The citizens of Haiti and several countries of the Maghreb live in a similar situation, but it would be possible to challenge decisions to the federal Court.