Alison Auld: Canadian Citizenship and Immigration Issues

alison auld: She only recently discovered that her legal guardians never secured her Canadian citizenship, an oversight which now leaves her vulnerable to deportation, according to Toronto Star. By Alison Auld The Canadian Press Sun., Nov. 6, 2016 HALIFAX — They have been deemed women without status for failings dating back to their childhoods, say their supporters. Cramman left England when she was eight years old and grew up in Ontario. They have spent much of their lives in Canada, had children, voted and held down jobs, but now find themselves facing deportation because of immigration issues that were never resolved when they were brought to the country as children and ended up in the care of the state. And they're hoping attention around their plight prompts governments to address what they say is a gap in youth protection policies for young people that become wards of the state, but whose residency status is not addressed by children aid workers, foster families or their biological parents. Advocates fighting for three Nova Scotia-based women to remain in Canada say their cases are unusual, but not uncommon. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.