The first thing Vikramjit Brar does every morning is check his phone, hoping for good news from Canada’s immigration department — that he’ll finally be able to reunite with his aging parents for good.
Tens of thousands of kilometres away in Punjab, India, his parents do the same thing.
But after five disappointing years and growing, the family is losing hope.
Brar, a longtime Calgary resident who recently moved to nearby Airdrie, applied to sponsor his parents for permanent residency in 2018. He says it’s been three years since he’s seen any progress made on their application.
“We want to take care of them.
