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Progress has been slow on a new program to resettle Uyghur refugees in Canada as an advocacy group says none have yet to arrive after nine months. In February 2023, the House of Commons unanimously agreed to call on the government to “urgently leverage” Immigration , Refugees, and Citizenship Canada’s refugee and humanitarian resettlement program to “expedite” 10,000 Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims to come to Canada in 2024 and 2025.
had promised,” he said, remarking that URAP is trying to submit more than 500 individuals to be processed. “There will not be an issue in the number of potential candidates to submit to the itself is stretched out because of the backlog, and they may not be processing the 500 applications before the end of this year,” he said, but noted there has been a promise to bring in 5,000 people in 2025. Liberal MP Sameer Zuberi says he had hoped all 10,000 Uyghur refugees would've come to Canada by the end of 2025.
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