At about 13 hours, a flight from Delhi to Vancouver is no short hop.
But for Charanjit Basanti, the journey to come to Canada as a permanent resident took a lot longer than that: nearly a quarter century.
Since 1999, Charanjit, 55, has been married to Paramjit Basanti, 72, a Canadian citizen living in Surrey.
But immigration officials have repeatedly denied Paramjit approval to sponsor Charanjit for Canadian residency. That means they’ve spent the vast majority of their marriage living a world apart — him in Canada, her in India — connecting sporadically.
Charanjit was finally approved as a permanent resident in September. On Saturday morning, she flew to her new home in the Lower
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