Kaurs and Singhs please excuse!

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=8beaadc3-c6bf-4aab-bbfa-7052b78136cb&&Headline=Kaurs+and%26nbsp%3bSinghs+please+excuse!

Good one! This is exactly the reason my wife is still in India as well. Getting her name changed on her passport whereas she received the request for her Passport a month ago.

When I applied for CIC,I got the letter stating above quote. I was totally shocked. Anyways,as my maiden name didnt contain any surname I guess the CIC wanted confirmation. Soon after landing here, I changed all my documents in my married name.

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you may be someone to the world but for someone you are the world.

Discriminatory and racist attitude of Canadian immigration policies is not something new... Look at history of early 1900s regarding similar glaring samples. Remember Kama Gata Maru incident when the ship boarders were refused entry even if they complied the toughest rules of entry to Canada! In fact cannons/bullets were there to welcome them!!!

After a storm of complaints from Sikhs, Ottawa reverses New Delhi office's 10-year decree that `the names Kaur and Singh do not qualify for the purpose of immigration to Canada'

Jul 26, 2007 04:30 AM


http://www.thestar.com/News/article/240030

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Good news for Sikhs!> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Canada_drops_imigration_policy_of_Sikh_surname/articleshow/2237206.cms


TORONTO: The Canadian government has reversed a decade-old policy that forced Indians with the last name Singh or Kaur to change their surnames to apply to immigrate.

For the past 10 years, the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi told Indians wishing to immigrate to Canada that the religious Sikh surnames were too common to process quickly and that a name change would be required.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada said on Wednesday it was canceling the policy, after The World Sikh Organization raised the issue on Tuesday.

Immigration authorities said the policy was a misunderstanding based on a “poorly worded'' letter.

Tarvinder Kaur, a Calgary woman waiting for her husband, Jaspal Singh, to arrive in Canada, told reporters that her husband's permanent residency application had been delayed for over a month because of his last name.

A national Canadian news organization posted the letter to Kaur from the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi on its Web site.

The letter, dated May 17 and addressed to Jaspal Singh, said: ``Please note that your surname must be endorsed on your passport. The names Kaur and Singh do not qualify for the purpose of immigration to Canada.''

Sikhs typically give baptized males the name Sing and females the name Kaur.

Canadian census figures show that there were 278,410 Sikhs in Canada in 2001.

So finally Canadian Govt dumps Immigration rule

http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/26ajit.htm

Thats why I am saying in my other threads
about discrimination fron Canadian Govt with Indians.

I think its in Opening of Temple in Toronto.
So my ponit was - whether its coprrect decision to Call Politicians for Opening such beautiful, peace & pure place

Anyway