Heidi Roggero: Canadian Bar Association

Catherine Sas Dept: As s Go Public reported in May, Heidi Roggero, of Coquitlam, B.C., moved to the province with her Canadian husband in 2000 and separated in 2009, but not before they had five children together. All are under the age of 14 and have dual citizenship, according to CBC. After hearing her story, lawyer Catherine Sas worked without a fee to help Roggero get a temporary work permit while she applies for permanent residence on humantiarian and compassionate grounds. Sas also convinced her lawyer colleagues at the Canadian Bar Association's B.C. branch to do the same for other foreign spouses desperate for permanent residency and work permits and a B.C. mother who s a U.S citizen and has five Canadian children has found her way out of a bureaucratic bind that had prevented her working in Canada or taking her children abroad. As Roggero had no legal status in Canada, she couldn t work in this country, but she also couldn t go back to the U.S. to work unless she abandoned or kidnapped her children. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.