this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2023
36 points (95.0% liked)

Canada

7188 readers
301 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Communities


🍁 Meta


πŸ—ΊοΈ Provinces / Territories


πŸ™οΈ Cities / Local Communities


πŸ’ SportsHockey

Football (NFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Football (CFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


πŸ’» Universities


πŸ’΅ Finance / Shopping


πŸ—£οΈ Politics


🍁 Social and Culture


Rules

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage:

https://lemmy.ca


founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Ottawa is offering a lifeline to people fleeing an escalating civil war in Sudan if they have relatives in Canada who agree to financially support them.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

How is this different from just sponsoring them through the normal immigration system? Is the process being expedited or something? Genuine question.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I know a bunch of Mexicans in the refugee process. My understanding is that these humanitarian visas will be expedited, at the expenses of the usual ongoing visa application process. Some Mexicans have been here over a year without getting some of the documentation that comes from claiming refugee status.