Ottawa to allow up to 1K relatives of citizens to apply for escape from Gaza
Global News
The special extended family program for people in Gaza to come to Canada and reunite with their relatives is set to launch next week.
The federal government says a maximum of 1,000 Palestinian relatives of Canadian citizens will be able to apply to escape the Gaza Strip with Canada’s help, but the National Council of Canadian Muslims is calling for the cap to be removed.
The special extended family program for people in Gaza is set to launch next week, after Palestinian Canadians pleaded for months to get help from the government to rescue their loved ones as the Israel-Hamas war continues.
The program would offer visas to a maximum of 1,000 Palestinians, which would allow them to take refuge in Canada for three years if their families are willing to financially support them during that time.
When Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced the plan last month, he said it wasn’t clear how many people would benefit, but that it would likely be “in the hundreds.”
A week later, the department released the written policy for the program.
It shows that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada will close the program to new requests after it receives and begins processing the first 1,000 applications, or after a year has elapsed.
The council of Canadian Muslims, a national advocacy group, says it has already been in contact with more than a thousand people who have reached out about getting their families out of Gaza.
“There should not be a cap,” said Uthman Quick, the organization’s director of communications.
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