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Waves of Chinese mothers with small children??

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37 posts · ed 2016
So me and the missus (Chinese) went though the process of getting her BRP, meeting the finance req and all that stuff and have since moved back into the city.

We were having lunch in the high street and noticed masses of chinese mothers with small children.. mostly 1-4 years old and dont speak a lick of english and started chatting about how these people are actually getting and staying here... we concluded that they are probably visitor visa overstays... but alot could be coming here pregnant with the hope if giving birth here and using that to stay... is that even possible??

What do you guys reckon? Its just purely out of interest as most of you here know how much of a bureaucratic ball ache it is legally.

I had to stop the wife going on and interigating the groups of women as she was getting pretty irritated at their loud obnoxious behaviour.
 
I'd agree with Nyclon... my own Grandmother (a Japanese native) didn't speak English very well during her life in Canada and yet she legally immigrated in the 1930s (during a period in Canadian history where east Asians had a difficult time in every-day society) and had several children, to whom she and my Grandfather spoke primarily in Japanese.

Even up to her final days, she preferred to communicate in Japanese (even with my brothers and cousins and I, all of whom grew up speaking English and could only speak Japanese very poorly).. she understood English when it was spoken to her (she could read and write it well enough to be understood) but she was more comfortable with Japanese.
 
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