3 Ukrainian kids stuck in Mexico, can’t get back to Edmonton
Global News
The three adopted children hold a CUAET (Canada-Ukraine authorization for emergency travel), which grants them one-time entry into the country.
Three Ukrainian children who escaped the war and moved to Edmonton are now stuck in Mexico.
Their legal guardian was surprised to learn the kids could not get back into Canada and is begging the government for help.
“Now everything is broken again,” Olga Ostapiv said. She adopted the kids to help them escape war-torn Ukraine.
Ostapiv says she wanted to help them forget about the war and decided to take them on a vacation she had pre-booked before Russia invaded Ukraine.
However, when it came time to head back to the airport, she learned the kids could not fly back to Canada.
Ostapiv is a Canadian citizen, but her three adopted children, Anastasia, Yulia and Maksim, are not.
They hold a CUAET (Canada-Ukraine authorization for emergency travel), which grants them one-time entry into the country. It is not considered a refugee program.
Ostapiv accepts all responsibility and says it’s her mistake, but says because her English isn’t great, she asked immigration officers if the kids could travel with those documents and was told yes.
