Boy reuniting with parents in Ottawa after three years apart
Posted Jan 21, 2016 07:32:05 AM.
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OTTAWA — A four-year-old boy will be reunited Thursday with both of his parents, after spending the last three years without them.
Daksh Sood has been living in India with his grandparents, while his mother and father worked to get him a temporary resident permit.
His mother, Bhavna Bajaj, says her son is expected to land at the Ottawa Airport shortly before 3:00 p.m. Thursday.
She and her husband came to Canada as permanent residents in January, 2013, but they didn’t disclose their intention to sponsor their son, Daksh, who was about a-year-and-a-half old at the time.
They wanted to bring him here from India once they were settled in Canada.
But they say Canada Border Service agents told them they either had to state their intention to sponsor Daksh and go back to India while their application was reviewed, or sign documents that they wouldn’t sponsor him.
She says after five hours of questioning, they signed that document.
The family’s supporters went to Immigration Minister John McCallum last month with a petition, and he called Bhavna himself to tell her her son was getting a permit to come to Canada.
“He’s kind of excited that he’s going to Canada,” she tells 1310 NEWS. “He wants to bring all his toys.”
Bhavna says she’s missed a lot of precious moments with her son over the last three years, and now, she’ll enjoy every moment with him.
“It’s all good now. The day has come, and I’m going to hug my son.”
