Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦

Separated from my Canadian love since April 9th #LoveIsNotTourism

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

In a week it will have been a year since the Canada/US border closed. 12 months without the touch of our loved ones @CanadianPM @PattyHajdu @BillBlair @marcomendicino can you please find a solution? #LoveIsNotTourism #LetUsReunite

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

This should have happened much sooner, there are safe, logical methods to #LetUsReunite please @CanadianPM @PattyHajdu @BillBlair @marcomendicino hear us #LoveIsNotTourism

[Brian Higgins @BHigginsBflo]

Families have been torn apart & our economies are suffering. We need a safe, bilateral cross-border plan and goals for reopening the border.

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

@CanadianPM @PattyHajdu @BillBlair #LoveIsNotTourism do you understand the mental health implications here? We are struggling #LetUsReunite

[International Love @LoveThruCOVID]

"Psychologists call it “touch deprivation” or “skin hunger,” the emotional and physical need for touch — something we probably needed more of even before the pandemic."
#LoveIsNotTourism
We need our partners by our sides now. Lift the travel ban with testing & quarantine! @POTUS

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

#LoveIsNotTourism #LetUsReunite

[Rachel S Marino🇺🇸🇨🇦 @RachelSMarino1]

@Tamara15227731 @TocRadio @PressSec When will the plan regarding the opening of the Northern Land Border be revealed? It’s been too long and families and loved ones have been separated for nearly a year. #LetUsReunite 🇨🇦🇺🇸

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

#LoveIsNotTourism #LetUsReunite

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

@CitImmCanada @marcomendicino

[Dr. David Edward-Ooi Poon MD MPH CCFP FRCPC @FacesofAdvocacy]

Early morning Oct 28 There are approvals coming in and we will post that data when we have it. Our internal polling up until this AM shows a disproportionate lower number of US applicants given authorization as well as the missing early apps generally. Finding out if need reapply

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

@CitImmCanada @marcomendicino

[Melanie Radford🇨🇦❤🇺🇸 @MelliegRad]

@FacesofAdvocacy @CitImmCanada I am sorry.. i tried to hold on. But we resubmitted just now. They clearly lost them. All the 8/9 approvals today followed up oct 22. My friend who applied on oct 22 with my help got approved while we just wait like idiots. I am furious.

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

@CitImmCanada @marcomendicino

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

@CitImmCanada @marcomendicino

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

@leapolyester @CitImmCanada @FacesofAdvocacy I filled out the "Tracking Early Applications" google poll. I so hope you hear soon! It would be so smart of @CitImmCanada to be using that internal poll

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

@leapolyester @CitImmCanada @FacesofAdvocacy Which list? I have filled out all recent polls from the FB group. So I would imagine yes!

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

I GOT APPROVED @CitImmCanada you did something good!! Now approve everyone else prior to the 13th!! @FacesofAdvocacy #LoveIsNotTourism

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

@takovanpopta my Canadian partner is your constituent and we have been struggling for the past 8mo due to the travel bans @marcomendicino and @CitImmCanada released exemptions and it is a disgrace, please put the pressure on #IRCCignored

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

@CitImmCanada @marcomendicino the math doesnt add up, and neither do your promises. We need to you to stand up and tell us what is going on. #IRCCignored #LoveIsNotTourism

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

@CitImmCanada @marcomendicino #IRCCignored #LoveIsNotTourism

[Kaylee Carson @Kaylee83545080]

90% of US applicants who applied for extended family member exemptions on the first 2 days remain unprocessed. @CitImmCanada how do you plan to uphold your 14 day promise to these applicants? @marcomendicino I hope you aren't lying to suffering families. @RaquelDancho 🙏

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

@CitImmCanada @marcomendicino you would make me go 16 months without seeing the love of my life? I applied on Oct 8 via email as a visa exempt American and #IRCCignored me to approve applicants after me #LoveIsNotTourism @FacesofAdvocacy

[Dr. Krevsi @krevsi]

More math for the weary, an example:

🇺🇲 Applications from Oct.9 are ~5% after 11 biz days. At the current pace, these won't be complete for more than 9 months!

NINE.
MONTHS.

Can @CitImmCanada understand why people are frustrated, upset, anxious and exhausted?
@FacesofAdvocacy

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

@marcomendicino @liberal_party @CitImmCanada Please do not break your stated commitments, no more broken hearts #LoveIsNotTourism

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

@CitImmCanada @marcomendicino @liberal_party can you uphold your word and reunite us? We need clarity as to why applications have not been processed in order #LoveIsNotTourism #IRCCignored my oct 8th application

[Jimmy 🇨🇦 @1upMonk]

They can accelerate this process and respect at least one if there promises by focusing exclusively on the 8th, then the 9th, then 10th and so on... It's very logical... Get it done! #IRCCignored @CitImmCanada @marcomendicino

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

#IRCCignored so many of us despite their promises for orderly approvals and timely turn around. Shouldnt the signed affidavit work like a marriage cert at the border? Legally signed proof of relationship #LoveIsNotTourism @marcomendicino @CitImmCanada

[Mel 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦 @melvautaux]

@marcomendicino @CitImmCanada I have been #IRCCignored your process that took months to roll out has left people behind already. What cant the affidavit be used like a marriage cert. to cross the border? I am in love and in pain #LoveIsNotTourism

[Dr. David Edward-Ooi Poon MD MPH CCFP FRCPC @FacesofAdvocacy]

• 327: 58 eTA, 36 vv, 233 USA

These are our internal number of applicants from 10/8-10/9 that still have yet to be approved. @CitImmCanada needs to approve these applicants by today and if they don’t, we will make sure to highlight their failures at the immigration committee.