Canadian Refugee Sponsorship groups are criticizing the recent amendments in Interim Federal Health Program restricting health care coverage for eligible asylum seekers. All the eligible refugee claimants were entitled to receive temporary health care coverage under the Interim Federal Health Care program including medications and immunization. This was the only option for them as they [...]
Canada’s Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney has announced on the World Refugee Day that Canada plans to accept up to 500 more Bhutanese Asylum seekers. The Minister Kenney said, “In May 2007, the government committed to resettling up to 5,000 Bhutanese refugees who had been living for nearly two decades in refugee [...]
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A Canadian-Colombian family is in deep emotional turmoil as Immigration Canada declared that failed asylum claimant Colombian mother Joanna Martinez must leave Canada along with her brother Jacob and two eldest daughters, Emily and Megan by June 27, 2012. However, her refugee claimant husband and two daughters who were born in Canada can stay in [...]
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Canada’s Bill C-31, Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act scheduled for final voting is expected to get approved without any hurdles due to governing party’s majority in Parliament. The Act will then move to Senate before it comes into force as law. The key point of the Bill is to deter bogus refugee claimants whose cases [...]
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