A critical-care doctor’s application for permanent residency in Canada has been rejected because one of his daughters has cerebral palsy and might be a drain on the health care system.
But the South African physician, who has been practicing in Canada since 2002, says his 22-year-old daughter has been institutionalized since she was a toddler and he has no intention of moving her to Canada.
A letter from the Canadian government says that, under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, a "person whose health condition, severe developmental delay associated with cerebral palsy, might reasonably be expected to cause excessive demand on health or social services," is inadmissible to Canada.
Since the doctor’s "non-accompanying family member is inadmissible to Canada," he is also "inadmissible."
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A spokesman for Citizenship and Immigration Canada said Muwanguzi’s case is complicated and moving along as quickly as possible.
Wendy Danson, his lawyer, said Canada needs doctors like like this. His son in South Africa, another practicing doctor, would also like to move here, she said. His wife is a teacher in Calgary. One of his daughters is a pre-med student at the University of Calgary and is paying high international student fees of about $30,000 a year.
The couple returns to South Africa once a year to visit their sons and their daughter with cerebral palsy, who isn’t capable of recognizing them or even talking. (Cerebral palsy refers to a group of neurological disorders that affect control of movement and posture and that limit activity.)
The doctor said it’s wrong he is being rejected "because of the notion that my daughter would be a drain on the Canadian economic system."