#98 - The Ban on Islamic Adoptions, with Warda Shazadi Meighen
Borderlines21 Feb 2024

#98 - The Ban on Islamic Adoptions, with Warda Shazadi Meighen

Warda Shazadi Meighen is an immigration lawyer in Toronto and the founder of Landings Law.


Canadian immigration legislation states that adoptions that can lead to immigration must create a legal parent-child relationship and sever the pre-existing legal parent-child relationship.Many Islamic countries have adoption, or guardianship, regimes based on kafala law, by which adoptive parents become the sponsor or guardians of a child, but the pre-existing legal parent-child relationship is not severed. As a consequence, adoptions from many Muslim countries are not recognized under Canadian immigration law. Warda has launched a Charter challenge to change this.

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