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IRCC: Canada Expands Efforts to Welcome More Yazidi Refugees and Other Survivors of Daesh

April 28, 2021
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  • Government Assisted Refugees
  • Refugee Policy
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  • united nations
  • yazidi

Over the past few years, the Government of Canada has kept its commitment to help Yazidi refugees and other survivors of Daesh start new lives in this country. Over 1,400 have settled in Canada since 2017, escaping unimaginable horrors at the hands of Daesh. Yet many of these refugees had to leave family members behind.

Building on the success of Canada’s resettlement efforts, the Honourable Marco E. L. Mendicino, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, announced a new policy to help more Yazidis and other survivors of Daesh reunite with their families in Canada. This policy will reunite extended family members, including siblings, grandparents, aunts, and uncles, along with those who may have been unable to previously apply for resettlement.

Following the successful welcoming of 1,200 survivors of Daesh by the end of 2017, the Government of Canada implemented a second policy to help family members come to Canada. That public policy ended in December 2020. Now, having listened to community concerns about matters such as the definition of immediate family member or refugee, and about family members who were missing or in captivity, the government is launching a new policy to allow more refugees to resettle and more families to reunite in Canada.

Canada has led the world in resettling refugees for the past 3 years. Indeed, the United Nations Refugee Agency called Canada “a bright light in a horrible year for refugee resettlement.” As the world faces a refugee crisis, Canada will continue to step up and provide refuge for those fleeing war and persecution.

(View original announcement with additional information here.)

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