Bhavna Bajaj and Minister John McCallum

permanent residents: The two have been separated from him since they immigrated as permanent residents, and have been unable to bring him to live with them in their Ottawa home, according to CTV. An online petition was launched to support their case, and, last Tuesday, Bajaj hand-delivered the petition to Immigration Minister John McCallum herself. Bhavna Bajaj and her husband, Aman Sood, have been working to bring their four-and-a-half year old son, Daksh, to Canada since they arrived in the country in 2013. To her surprise, McCallum called her the next day to tell her that the government would be granting their son a temporary resident permit, meaning he could soon join them in this country. Bajaj said she was stunned by the call. "I had brain freeze for a few minutes," she told CTVNews.ca. "As a mother, I have been trying this for nearly three years, and to get it in one day from the immigration minister … it like a whole new life has started." The case stems from January, 2013, when the couple arrived in Canada as permanent residents from India. The minister also told her that the government would work on granting him permanent residency, she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.