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Staffing will be boosted at Canadian visa offices in Jordan and Lebanon to expedite the processing of Syrian refugee applications. Immigration Minister John McCallum’s office confirmed on Thursday that the government will increase resources at the overseas visa offices as part of its commitment to resettle 10,000 privately sponsored Syrian refugees by the end of 2016 or the beginning of 2017.
Syrian refugees are no longer treated as a priority for processing, and expedited processing centres set up in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan to interview and screen refugees have been closed after only a few months of operation. With less than 24 hours’ notice the government announced last Wednesday that private sponsorship applications had to be received before midnight on March 31 in order to be finalized by the end of 2016 or early 2017.
Why did large numbers of government sponsored Canadian Syrian refugees recently spend weeks isolated in urban hotels awaiting a permanent residence when there were small towns in Canada lining up asking to be allowed to provide them with a welcome, a residence and friendly personal support? The answer lies in a lack of awareness on the part of Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada of the valuable “social capital” found in smaller Canadian communities.
Additional staff are being sent back to Canadian visa offices in the Middle East for faster processing of Syrian refugees, part of a Liberal promise to bring 10,000 privately sponsored Syrians to Canada by early next year. Sponsorship groups have given Immigration Minister John McCallum and other Liberal MPs an earful in recent weeks after efforts to resettle Syrians were scaled back following the end of the government’s program to get 25,000 to Canada by the end of February.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/visa-syrian-refugees-jordan-lebanon-1.3525676
Canada is unusual among the world’s top destinations for international students in allowing graduates on a work permit to work in any field after they finish their studies. An internal report from Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) found that the post-graduation work permit program (PGWP) was creating a poorly paid, underemployed work force among recent international student graduates at colleges and universities.
Vancouver city council unanimously agreed Wednesday to approve a policy that will allow residents with uncertain, or even no immigration status, to access city services without having to fear they may be reported and ultimately detained, or deported. Though limited in scope, council and immigration advocates view the policy as a step towards influencing police, health authorities and other municipalities to come up with similar measures to protect those who fear they may be detained or deported on the basis of their immigration status