One in three Ukrainians with visas have reached Canada as applications approach 700K

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Government statistics show fewer than one-third of Ukrainians approved for temporary Canadian visas have arrived in the country, even as hundreds of thousands of others remain in the queue waiting to find out if they qualify to travel to Canada.

The temporary visas are part of the special immigration measures introduced by the federal government in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine giving UkrainiansAccording to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, the government received nearly 700,000 requests from Ukrainians to travel to Canada under the special program between March and November.

Tabled in response to a written question from Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, the document also says that as of September, about 14 per cent of the applications were for children under 18 while around five per cent were for people aged 61 and older. It goes on to caution that total application numbers held by the immigration department could be “inflated” because some people have multiple applications associated with their files.

But the department said it was not able to determine a person's country of residence prior to their application, and that applicants are only required to declare their current country of residence.

 

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Trudeau said he wants to bring 500 million more refugees...well there's a start..

Send them back

People who can't afford property will house others with their taxes. What a world

Are they vaccinated? Because 60% don't agree with the Covid-19 vaccine and are not vacinated!

Why don't three in three stay in Ukraine and fight for their own country?

Hmmm 🤔

Ohh Canada…smh

So where are we housing them all? I’m assuming hard working tax payers willbe paying for their stay?

700k, really? We have neither the housing, jobs nor government funding to spare for this. Or at least that’s what Canadians are told when they require these things.

Better start building more low income houses. To fill up with new Canadians. While the ones born in Canada live in the parks and on the streets.

Someone must have informed them in advance that Canada sucks .

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