Marc Miller did not rule out granting permanent residence to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, but also said it is not a priority for the government
Immigration Minister Marc Miller says he is not ruling out allowing Ukrainians who fled the war in their homeland to settle here eventually, and has no plans to send them back to a war zone.
Of the 1.2 million Ukrainians who applied to come to Canada, 298,000 arrived here, a few thousand of whom are believed to have since returned. Mr. Miller said “the geopolitical reality” is that Ukrainians who came here under the temporary visa program would be expected to go back once peace is restored.
Randall Baran-Chong, executive director of Pathfinders for Ukraine, has been urging the government to create a special pathway to permanent residence for the almost 300,000 Ukrainians who came here on temporary visas.refugees – safety, certainty, and ability to build a normal life in Canada through a pathway to permanent residency is an act of humanity,” he said.
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