3 Ukrainian children stranded in Mexico granted visas to return to Edmonton
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Three Ukrainian children, adopted by an Edmonton woman, have been granted visas to return to Canada after being stranded in Mexico for months.
Three Ukrainian children, adopted by an Edmonton woman, are coming home after being stranded in Mexico for months.
“Everyone is happy to hear happy news,” said Olga Ostapiv, who is a Canadian citizen and the legal guardian of three children from Ukraine named Anastasia, Yulia and Maksim.
The kids have a special type of visa called CUAET ( Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel), which grants them one-time entry into Canada. It is not considered a refugee program.
Ostapiv said she wanted to help them forget about the war and decided to take them on a vacation she had booked before Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago.
She says because her English isn’t great, she asked immigration officers if the kids could travel with those documents and was told yes.
However, when it came time to head back to the airport in Mexico and return home to Edmonton, she learned the kids could not fly back to Canada.
The kids have been in Mexico for two months now, hotel hopping on a weekly basis and unable to return to Edmonton.
Ostapiv accepts responsibility and admits it’s her mistake for not understanding the limits of the visa.
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