You can just google "find my MP" and that will take you to a Canada Government homepage where you can input your postal code and your MP's name will come up. Please email, fax, or phone your MP and say something like:
"I have friends adopting an orphaned baby from God's Littlest Angels Orphanage in Haiti. The Haitian adoption process is very long. They have already been waiting for over a year and they are about halfway through their adoption process.
"Please ask the Canadian Government and the Haitian Government to act speedily on behalf of these children. Bring them home on Humanitarian or Refugee visas immediately so that they can wait in Canada while the rest of the adoption process is carried out.
"God's Littlest Angels Orphanage acts as a medical facility in Haiti at the best of times, and now that this catastrophe has happened, their medical expertise will be in even higher demand. They need to help the people in their community of Petionville who have been devastated by the earthquake. There will be more children who have just been orphaned by the earthquake who will need care. Please expedite the adoptions so that the children currently being cared for in the orphanage can go to their homes and new children can take their places. Thankyou"
THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO IS WILLING TO DO THIS FOR US AND FOR THE CHILDREN OF GLA!
Oh just brought to my attention from Jill, a fellow friend/adoptive parent: Dixie has an update!
Our lawyer was able to get through to us today. She says all of the government buildings downtown were damaged or destroyed! She reported that Judge Rock CADET was killed in a building collapse.
I have asked our lawyer to petition IBESR and the government of Haiti to allow all children in the adoption process to be allowed to join their adoptive families. We are all going to need beds for orphans who have lost their family in this disaster!
I need all of my families to contact their adoption agencies and government officials to allow these children to leave Haiti without a Haitian passport on Humanitarian or Refuge visas! I KNOW the USA government can issue emergency passports for situations like this because they did it for me during a crisis in Haiti from a poison in a children’s fever medicine and children were dying. We sent 11 children out of Haiti during that time and most did not have a Haitian issued passport. Please find out if your government has such a system in place!
(All DUTCH Families: Please work through NAS to get these children home. They are trying to get ALL children in process and not just those finished in Parquet. So join forces with NAS and not to confuse the issue with the Dutch Government.
Some of your dossiers are thankfully with us in our office. Others are with other government sections and we do not know if they are intact or not. I do know that the National Palace, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Finance, DJI building which is part of the legalization department, National Cathedral is gone. I do not know about Immigration or IBESR!
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Done. Our family has sent emails to our MP, Minister of Immigration, and Stephen Harper. Praying for the visas to be expidited and for Trey to come home will the people of Haiti rebuild. Our prayers are with you during this stressful time.
ReplyDeleteoops...meant to write "WHILE the people of Haiti rebuild."
ReplyDeleteWe sent something off, too. And we, too, are praying for you and little Trey.
ReplyDeleteI sent this to my MP.
ReplyDeleteYvonne
We are praying for you as you go through this trying time! I have Trey's picture hanging in my schoolroom and we pray for him. May God bless you with peace and encouragement!
ReplyDeleteOur thoughts are with you, and all the other parents during this difficult time. Please see the following release, calling on the Minister of Immigration to expedite the process for all families waiting for their adopted children in Haiti to come home to Canada.
ReplyDeleteUNITE HAITIAN ORPHANS WITH THEIR NEW CANADIAN FAMILIES NOW: CHOW
TORONTO – In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Canada needs to expedite the immigration process and bring Haitian adoptees into the country now, says New Democrat Immigration Critic Olivia Chow (Trinity-Spadina).
“Adopted children in Haiti have waited long enough to be united with their new families,” said Chow. “Their applications have been approved, they’ve been matched up, and after the unimaginable trauma they experienced, Canada should do the right thing and allow them to come here right away.”
Chow is calling on the Immigration Minister to ensure that any Haitian child who has been approved for adoption be united with their family as soon as possible. Many orphanages in Haiti are already overcrowded and will undoubtedly be seeing even more children at their doors.
“There are bodies in the streets and many people don’t have access to medical care, drinking water or food,” said Chow. “Their parents have already had to wait for several years. Now is the time to bring these children home to their new families.”