LANKAN TO BE DEPORTED DUETO MISSING PASSPORT
The 31-year-old Sri Lankan Janina Colombage is married to a Canadian and has two children aged 7 and 10.
In a weird case of deportation, a woman of Sri Lankan origin grown-up in Canada could be deported back to Sri Lanka because of a missing passport, Canadian media reported during the weekend.
The 31-year-old Sri Lankan Janina Ibarra (Nee Colombage) is married to Canadian and has two children aged 7 and 10 in Vancouver, BC.
Janina said that she was being deported due to a clerical mistake of the officials dating back nearly 10 years.
Her Sri Lankan passport, a necessary document to apply for Canadian citizenship, went missing somewhere between Canadian Immigration and
She has spent half her life in Canada and was in the final stages of getting permanent residence status when she was picked up
the Sri Lankan High Commission, she said.
“The woman who has built her adult life in Canada over the past decade as she lived in immigration limbo, partly because officials lost her passport, says she’s terrified her family would be torn apart as she faces a renewed deportation effort,” the Globe and Mail reported. The report in the Globe and Mail: Janina Ibarra, 31, said she has spent half her life in Canada and was in the final stages of getting permanent residence status when she was picked up by border agents two weeks ago.
She said she and her Canadian husband, Eliseo Ibarra, 35, were on their regular morning commute to the Canadian Bible Society, where she
In a weird case of deportation, a woman of Sri Lankan origin grown-up in Canada could be deported back to Sri Lanka because of a missing passport, Canadian media reported during the weekend.
has been working as a clerk for three years. She was detained at the Canada Border Services Agency’s Vancouver detention facilities for two nights and three days.
“I felt scared, terrified and humiliated. I wasn’t even allowed to see anybody, including my children, until the hearing, which was two days later,” Ms. Ibarra said in an interview. “I’m worried about being separated from my family. My boys have never really been away from me. I’m their primary caregiver. … [We] really feel that we are at the mercy of all these people that have so much power.”
Last month, the CBSA obtained a deportation order for her, effective some time in late June or early July. She said she was told the agency had been looking for her since 2012 because her application had gone stagnant./ Globe and the Mail