Permanent Resident Application: Habibullah

Bureaucratic Delays Dept: Hamid Anwari, 22, said he is frustrated after multiple attempts to sponsor his 59-year-old mother Sherbano Habibullah, who is living in Pakistan, according to CBC. Anwari moved to Canada in 1999 after his father sponsored him and his four brothers. The family made their first permanent resident application for Habibullah three years later and members of a Richmond Hill family have spent a decade trying to bring their mother to Canada, but have been thwarted by bureaucratic delays, an unexpected tragedy and an immigration system that treats parents differently than children or spouses. "My mom was never there when I got an A at school, my mom was never there when I grew up, or had that crush on a girl," he said. "All those little things that people take in life for granted, I never got those things." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.