Immigration Forum / Canada / April 2008

After 4 years of planning & waiting, we have been dashed at the 11th hour,
understandably feeling gutted & angry at basically having put our lives on
hold for all this time for this rejection.

The reason for the refusal is our daughter, who has a slight developmental
delay\combined with dyslexia, the following header came with PDF's sent from
our lawyers.

"Dear Mr. ******,

This is to inform you that we have received the attached correspondence today
from London.  As the letter states, you have 60 days from the letter's date
to submit additional information relating to ******'s condition that may help
your case.
 
We recommend taking the letter to ******'s doctor, and letting the doctor
read the letter.  If the doctor does not agree with the findings, then the
doctor should provide a letter stating the reasons.

Best Regards,

******* *******
Legal Assistant"

The accompanying documentation states that CHC consider her:

"If admitted to Canada, she would require an evaluation by an
educationalassessment team dealing with children who have developmental
delays. From this evaluation she would almost certainly be identified as an
exceptional student requiring special education and special funding would be
allocated to her so that she could receive this education.

It is reasonable to assume that special education will likely be required
throughout her schooling years. This special education is costly.

In summary, based upon a review of the results ofher immigration medical
examination and all reports received with respect to her health condition,
this client has a health condition that might reasonably be expected to cause
an excessive demand on Canadian social services."

The vast majority of the narrative they have stated comes from a older report
into her status & not the one we commissioned at CHC's request & took place
last October.  Given that she attends a main stream school, receives about 20
minutes a day in one to one support we are going to, we intend to provide the
following:

Supporting letters & documents from:

 Our family Doctor not the DMZ, who only met her once.

 From both her middle & current schools, including photocopies of merits she
has gained for good      
 work in class.

 A letter from us highlighting the positives in the privately commissioned
report, which was far less                
 bleak than the older report, which did contain a few actual errors & other
relavent information:
 
   That she is now reading at a functional level & helps her younger brother
with his homework.
   
   That as she receives between 1 - 2 two hours of assistance a week during
school time, that we  
   could easily fund a similar level of private tution\home study.

   That as part of her developmental delay & adjustment to Canada we were
going to see about her    
   being held back into a lower year at her Canadian school.

   That our intended landing would now not be for another two years taking
her to 15, as our eldest  
   son has now accepted a place at a music college (as a result of having to
take some form of
   decision for his future while waiting) that we wish him to attend & we
would not be leaving him in    
   the UK until he neared the course's completion.

Helpful thought's, comments, opinions or anything else we could add to the
appeal letter & supporting documents would be most welcome.

Thanks .