Having worked – or had close family members who worked – for Canada before the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last year, Afghan refugees and their pleas to Ottawa for help have since been ignored
Afghans who worked for the Canadian government in Afghanistan are still waiting for federal immigration authorities to contact them, a month after Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said those who are seeking resettlement in Canada would hear from his department within weeks.
Another Afghan, whose father worked as a security officer alongside the Canadian Armed Forces, said he has been e-mailing Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada since this past August and has heard nothing. This past July, Canada announced a special resettlement program for Afghans who had helped with Canada’s military and diplomatic missions in Afghanistan, many of whom now face reprisals from the Taliban for co-operating with foreign governments.
“It’s absolutely unfathomable that we’re sitting here in June with people still not having had any response aside from an auto-reply,” she said. But many Afghans who have reached out to the government about the program have not been invited to apply. Conservative immigration critic Jasraj Singh Hallan reiterated a call for Canada to provide those trapped in Afghanistan with single-use travel documents, which could allow them to escape to nearby countries, such as Pakistan, and undergo the biometric verification required for entry to Canada. But the government has said such documents would not necessarily allow Afghans to pass safely out of Afghanistan, because neighbouring countries may require refugees to have passports and visas to enter.
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