That's a $60-million question. We also have situations similar to that, and it's more common in China, too, where there are a lot of abandoned girls. Some of our clients just took in abandoned girls and raised them as their own family members, until one day they had to prove that they were members. Of course, they had nothing to prove it because they never adopted them. I think that speaks to the lack of flexibility, and maybe to Chantal's point about how we define family. Right now, we use the concept of a de facto family member to try to capture these situations, but it doesn't always work. The visa officers have all kinds of reasons to reject them. Even in some cases where they accept that the girl has been raised in that family, they say, “Well, you know, by now she's almost 19, so she can be on her own.” I think, really, the concept of family needs to be resolved. We need to accept that people form families in different ways and that not all of them have had the chance to formalize through adoption.
On October 27th, 2016. See this statement in context.