OTTAWA — Ukrainians who have fled to Canada with an emergency visa find themselves in a “grey area” of the immigration system, and several settlement…
Their task was made even more difficult by the fact that there was no central registry with arrival information, as there would be for permanent residents or refugees.
The temporary visa program is set to stop taking new applicants on March 31, giving the government two weeks to decide whether to extend it. Those key details would allow settlement agencies to prepare for their arrival and connect them with jobs, housing and other resources they might need, she said.Article content
“We made the decision at the time to try something new, to offer temporary protection by leveraging the strength … of Canada’s tourism program, where we’re not required to set a capped number of people that we can support, but we can process whatever applications come in,” he said. The assumption at the time was that Ukrainians would likely return to their home country when the war ended. But increasingly, Ukrainians who come to Canada are showing an interest in staying, said Sarosh Rizvi, the executive director of the Alberta Association of Immigrant Serving Agencies.
It also leaves an open question about what kind of support will be available to people who decide to stay if they are denied permanent status in Canada, he said.
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