Ms. Que Banh<p>Hey everyone, I know both Zain & his wife, Sophia. We all worked together for <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SaveOldGrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOldGrowth</span></a> & <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopEcocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopEcocide</span></a> work here in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BritishColumbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BritishColumbia</span></a>. What's happened to Zain is unjust & I'm asking you all to please read this whole post & sign the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/petition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>petition</span></a>. Thanks for your time & help. Please boost for wider reach.</p><p>* Last week, Prime Minister <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MarkCarney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarkCarney</span></a> revealed Lena Metledge Diab will serve as Canada’s new Immigration Minister.</p><p>The first thing Diab should do as Minister is bring <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ClimateActivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateActivist</span></a> Zain Haq back to Canada by greenlighting his Temporary Residence Permit that has been processing since January.</p><p>Zain was deported to Pakistan in January for climate activism that resulted in low-level mischief charges. He’d been living in Canada his entire adult life, and with his Canadian wife, Sophia Papp, since 2023.</p><p>Sophia has been given the devastating choice to remain in Canada without her spouse or relocate to <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Pakistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pakistan</span></a> , where she doesn’t speak the language and faces significant barriers to her health and wellbeing.</p><p>A mere 48 hours before Zain was deported, he and Sophia’s Spousal Sponsorship application was rejected by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) without substantive explanation.</p><p>The couple’s lawyer, Randall Cohn, has stated that this eleventh-hour rejection is likely illegal. It also denied Zain and Sophia’s right to procedural fairness, since they didn’t have time to access the appeal process enshrined in the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BillOfRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BillOfRights</span></a>.</p><p>Zain and Sophia’s situation is reminiscent of the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/unethical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unethical</span></a> treatment of many <a href="https://beige.party/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>migrants</span></a> in the U.S.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/IRCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IRCC</span></a> ’s last minute rejection of a young couple’s Sponsorship Application without substantive reason should raise alarm bells for anyone of conscience, but especially for those with a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> background – and before getting into <a href="https://beige.party/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> , Minister Diab was a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/lawyer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lawyer</span></a> in Halifax. That’s why we have to get Zain’s file on her desk as soon as possible. *</p><p><a href="https://info.dogwoodbc.ca/Nzc0LVNITy0yMjgAAAGaojayXiZm_H7wcAp51xUGCu4p2_h2edKAe6DW18ZVVROirXyyQRTyy9tQvopvAaCqJ1jgk0U" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">info.dogwoodbc.ca/Nzc0LVNITy0y</span><span class="invisible">MjgAAAGaojayXiZm_H7wcAp51xUGCu4p2_h2edKAe6DW18ZVVROirXyyQRTyy9tQvopvAaCqJ1jgk0U</span></a>=</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BCpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CDNpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Activists</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SocialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialJustice</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/EcoJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EcoJustice</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Environmentalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environmentalist</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Injustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Injustice</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/EndFossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndFossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PowerToThePeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerToThePeoples</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PleaseHelp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PleaseHelp</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DogwoodBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DogwoodBC</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Grassroots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grassroots</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deportation</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CanadianImmigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanadianImmigration</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a></p>