Mazhar Elahi Khan: Indrani Banerjee

Indrani Banerjee: Now, the Mississauga woman must wait as long as two years for a federal tribunal to hear her appeal against Citizenship and Immigration Canada, according to The Star. We waited three years just to get a decision on our sponsorship. Now we have to wait for another two years just to get a hearing on our appeal, said Banerjee, an accountant whose application was rejected last fall. It is so frustrating and It took Indrani Banerjee three years to get a decision from immigration officials denying her sponsorship of her Pakistani husband. Banerjee, 52, who emigrated from India in 2001, and her spouse, Mazhar Elahi Khan, 45, are among thousands of couples caught up in a bureaucratic nightmare that has seen the average processing time of sponsorship appeals creep up over the last five years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.