Many sponsorship applications for Afghan refugees will likely be rejected because the government will process only the first 3,000 applicants, advocates says
A group of advocates is urging the federal government to remove the limit on applications to sponsor certain Afghan refugees in Canada – or at least stop counting rejected applications towards it.
The government said it will accept sponsorship applications under the new program until October 17, 2023, or once it has received applications for 3,000 refugees – whichever comes first. He said many of the submitted applications will likely end up rejected on a technicality because the government said it will process only the first 3,000 applicants and thus sponsors had to raise funds and write their sponsorship applications quickly.“This announcement that whether are good or bad, we’re still going to count them towards the total. So, what that did was create this condition where people were frantically rushing to put together applications.
She said the department is currently reviewing the received applications to determine whether it reached that cap.