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TT_Progress

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2. It is pretty simple really. Immigration policy needs to respect and give
Sat Aug 2, 2014, 05:25 AM
Aug 2014

precedence to the "nuclear family" unit. We talk a good talk about "family values". But the family unit has almost no actual rights in this process and can even be seperated without the ability to appeal in certain cases.

Many countries actually have the rights of the "family" inshrined in the constitution itself. We do not have this, so it must be included via policy and it is not currently given significant rights in the system. Which allows all kinds of inequities to occur.

But even if that cannot be achieved, simply adding policies that expedite (real expedition, not the current expedite process for family applications which is arbitrary) immediate family members equitably would go a long way.

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