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An Open Petition Letter to Citizenship And Immigration Canada and Mr. Minister Jason Kenney
(This Letter Is Also Sent to Relevant Medium in Canada)
Re: Please Do Not Issue Permanent Residential Status to Filipino Nanny Leticia Sarmiento in Vancouver BC and Deport Her From Canada
Respected Minister Kenney and the Department of Citizenship and Immigration of Canada:
We, the undersigned, call on the Citizenship and Immigration of Canada not to issue permanent residential status to the Filipino nanny Leticia Sarmiento in Vancouver BC and deport her away from Canada.
Petition Background:
Filipino Nanny Ms. Leticia Sarmiento has worked for the couple immigrated from Hongkong Franco Yiu Kwan Orr and Oi Ling Nicole Huen since ? when all of them were still in Hongkong. She cried for the couple to bring her to Canada after the couple got permanent residential status of Canada and landed in Vancouver on Sept. 09, 2008 by tourism visa issued by Canada. At the same time the couple bought around-flight ticket for her in order to let her going back Hongkong at the time the visa is expired.
Ms. Leticia Sarmiento refused to return back to Hongkong when her visa was expired on Mar. 09, 2009 and let the flight-ticket expired as well. The couple bought again for her a flight ticket to Hongkong after her application for extension of visa was refused but she did not want to leave Canada and cried again to let her stay. Their employment was ended after her visa was expired and the couple agreed her to stay without payment of rent just as a guest or friend. On June 14, 2010 the couple booked again a flight-ticket for her to leave Canada to Hongkong and also arranged her temporal residence in Hongkong. Ms. Leticia Sarmiento was very upset on the leave from Canada and then after a big quarrelling broke out between her and Ms. Ok Ling Nicole Huen. Sarmiento called police one day before she was supposed to leave Canada. And then the case was presented to a court in Vancouver.
From the very beginning it’s Ms. Sarmiento who cried the couple to bring her to Canada. ‘If’ it were a ‘trafficking’ it was Sarmiento herself begged being trafficked. It was her who wanted to stay with the couple after she was provided flight-ticket by the couple for three times. She knew clearly her visa was expired. She knew clearly she wants to stay in Canada and the couple is the one who can take advantage of. She has stayed with them not for one day, not for one month, not for one year, but for ? years. If she was really abused by them she should have called police long time ago, not the day before she realized she could not manage to stay in Canada legally! And during such a long time that she stayed with the couple she contacted with her mother, children, other relatives in Philippine for many times by phone so there was no reason that she could not call police here. She is an adult ‘with high school diploma’ and many years working experience why she tried to protect herself so late? And if in so long a time she did not know how to protect herself then how come suddenly, just a day before leaving Canada she knew clearly calling police?
The fact is that it is not the couple abused her Sarmiento, but she Sarmiento abused this innocent couple’s goodwill of trying their best to help her in the most difficult time. We all know how difficult the first two or three even more years of immigrating to new country, especially with three little children. Some of new immigrants even chose to separate from their young children for a while until they could finally settle down with more stable economic resources. ‘If’ this is a ‘trafficking’ then the director, the principal conspirator, is none the other than Ms. Leticia Sarmiento! She even wanted money from the couple to buy a fake diploma for meeting the requirements of Canadian immigration.
Now then, We, the undersigned, call on theCitizenship and Immigration of Canada not to issue permanent residential status to the Filipino nanny Ms.Leticia Sarmiento in Vancouver BC and deport her away from Canada. The couple will learn a lesson from this case. Canada does not need dishonest person. And the justice will be realized eventually.
Thank you! |
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