Wafaa Abdou is scheduled to be deported on Saturday, her son's 9th birthday
CBC News
Posted: Apr 27, 2013 10:19 AM ET
Last Updated: Apr 27, 2013 10:22 AM ET
A Hamilton group is venturing to north Toronto to protest the imminent deportation of Wafaa Abdou, an Egyptian woman who is married to a Canadian.
The Reunite Wilkie Family Committee is staging a demonstration at 11 a.m. on Saturday outside the Rexdale detention centre where Abdou is being held. She is scheduled to be deported back to Egypt by the end of the day, leaving Ian Wilkie, her Hamilton-born husband, and their three children behind in Ontario.
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"Coincidentally, this is also the date of her son, Yusuf's, 9th birthday: a sad commentary on the lack of veracity in the Harper government's claim to support family values so far in this case," the group said in a statement.
Abdou has been incarcerated at the detention centre since January, just after her refugee claim was denied.
Abdou's children hold a picture of her. (Supplied) Abdou and Wilkie, who met in Egypt over a decade ago, were living in Syria in 2011 when that country's civil war broke out. They fled to Canada, looking to settle in Hamilton, Wilkie's hometown, with their three children — Fatima, 6, Yusuf, 8, and Zaynab, 11.
A Canadian citizen, Wilkie said he tried to sponsor his wife's immigration immediately. They were told to seek refugee status instead, which Wilkie has said was bad advice. The process eventually led to a Jan. 14 appointment in which Abdou was interrogated and told her claim had been denied.
We don't offer immigration advice: CIC
Citizenship and Immigration officials can't comment on specific cases before the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB), Erika-Kirsten Easton, director of ministerial events and media relations, told CBC Hamilton in March.
But as for the notion of Abdou being erroneously advised to file for refugee status, the department "does not offer immigration advice of the kind you suggest," she said.
Canada's refugee system, Easton said, is "one of the fairest refugee systems in the world. Decisions regarding who is granted refugee status are made "only after a thorough review," she said. "Due process is diligently followed at every step."
And unless a spouse sponsors an immigrant, the government does not give more weight to someone married to a Canadian, she said.
"(Citizenship and Immigration Canada) considers all applications in a fair and impartial manner according to Canada's immigration laws and based on the facts of the case."
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