Permanent Residency: Immigration Officials

Gerente Dept: Gerente, the Filipino nanny who dreamed of obtaining her permanent residency and then bringing her two young daughters to Canada, had no idea the first part of her wish was about to come true, according to The Star. A live-in caregiver since 2008, Gerente, 44, has been in a vegetative state since November after undergoing surgery for a benign brain tumour. She had been waiting for permanent residency since 2011. Two days after she went into a coma, immigration officials attempted to contact her for an interview regarding her application and As Maricon Gerente lay unresponsive in an Oakville hospital bed, an array of IV and feeding tubes keeping her alive, two immigration officials unexpectedly entered the room. In a rare and possibly unprecedented move, Citizenship and Immigration dispatched two officers to Oakville-Trafalgar Hospital Tuesday, days after published a story about her tragic circumstances. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.