Edna Aldovino: Permanent Resident Status

permanent resident status: The dying woman from the Philippines was desperate to collect the employment hours she needed to qualify for permanent resident status to bring her only child, Kenneth, here under Canadas live-in caregiver program the last gift she could give him, according to The Star. Immigration Canada terminates immigration applications when the principal applicant is deceased and a decision is still pending, with no exception for live-in caregivers and Despite being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, Edna Aldovino postponed her medical treatment and continued to work as a nanny in Toronto. When she died in hospital last August after cancer spread to her liver and brain, so did her dream to give Kenneth, now 20, a better life. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.