A Saskatoon family's five-year adoption ordeal has come to a close.
Four-year-old Ajjab Afridi is now safe and in Saskatoon after a lengthy legal battle.
His adoptive parents have been trying to get him to the city for more than five years but were repeatedly denied permission to bring him to Canada.
In 2010, Ashfaq Afridi and his wife Waheeda travelled to Pakistan where Waheeda's sister had just given birth to her seventh child, Ajjab.
The sister's husband had died and the Saskatoon couple wanted to adopt the boy, but were told they couldn't.
The family finally got the go-ahead last summer. Ajjab's adoptive mother spent most of the last five years with him in Pakistan.
Her husband said they are relieved and happy to finally be re-united.
"It was a big surprise for them. For me, too. It was very exciting – I was happy when I saw them," Afridi said.
The family is originally from Pakistan and left the country to avoid violence and poverty.
