Iryna Mishyna isn\u0027t the only mother in this situation, said Randall Baran\u002DChong, the founder of Pathfinders for Ukraine
She applied in July and her visa came through in September, but after waiting six months she has heard no word from the Canadian government about her son.Article contentAnd so every day she co-ordinates volunteers in an airy room on the second floor of Warsaw’s central train station, where a dozen small wooden benches are laid with thin foam mats, blankets, and star-shaped pillows so Ukrainian children can sleep after fleeing their home country.
Canada launched a first-of-its-kind program to allow Ukrainians to bypass the usual refugee system, and instead come to Canada quickly with a temporary work and study permit to wait out the war.Article content More complex applications might take longer to process, and the time it takes to evaluate an application varies based on a “number of factors,” federal Immigration Department spokesperson Julie Lafortune said in a statement.Article content
The expansive public park across from the station that was filled with tents and kiosks offering refugees food, help and advice at the beginning of the war is now empty, and many refugee centres have closed. Still, he said Canada did a good job of opening its doors to refugees quickly and adapting the program to accommodate the huge demand.
“Some of them were saying, ‘If my home is OK, I’ll go back, but if my home is destroyed I’ll just start my new life in Canada.”‘
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