Canadians appeal for expansion of closed Afghan refugee sponsorship program
“We know it started to fill up 20 or 30 minutes after it opened – there were messages that the inbox filled up so there is a very high demand,” Iris Challoner, MOSAIC’s refugee sponsorship program manager, told Global News.Challoner said she’s pleased the government opened this temporary program and hopes there will be more refugees without official refugee recognition status who are accepted, highlighting Afghans are one of the largest refugee populations in the world.
“There was recently an attack with more than 100 Hazara girls killed and they were all 18 or younger and they were there to do a mock university entrance test,” Rajabe said, adding, “Even those who made it to Pakistan, Iran and Turkey are living in fear of deportation because they can’t get refugee status determination.”
The hopeful-sponsorship groups are calling on Ottawa to remove the cap on the temporary program, but Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Sean Fraser told Global News that’s not in the plan. “We don’t currently have plans to extend it to further numbers because it would eat away at the allocations committed to other people who are trying to sponsor as well,” Fraser said.is urging other groups across the country to get in contact with them by email as they continue appealing to the feds to accept applications under this temporary program for Afghans, for a full year without a cap.
Watt highlights how a similar program exempting the need for refugee status determination for those fleeing Syria and Iraq to be privately sponsored in 2015 and 2016 wasLethbridge Family Services resettling 44 Afghan refugees
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