Filipiniana News - May 2016 RHYME & REASON Stumbling Blocks to Family Reunification One of the main objectives of Canada's immigration system is family reunification. Hence, priority is given to family class sponsorships and the automatic inclusion of spouses and dependent children in most permanent residence applications. Sadly however, this objective is often thwarted by human weaknesses or bureaucratic limitations. For example, despite government warnings and stricter scrutiny of spousal sponsorship applications, sponsorship fraud still persist. I have met with some Canadian sponsors who, after learning that their foreign spouses only married them for purposes of gaining immigration status in Canada, wanted to know how they can have their sponsored spouses deported. Sadly, sponsors realize too late that if the sponsored spouses have already been granted permanent residence, the sponsors cannot simply revoke the...