TORONTO --
Mina Melad Gerges Makar and his household needed to go away Canada for Ukraine after his immigration software was rejected in January. However a month later, Russia's invasion of Ukraine compelled the Makars to flee to Switzerland.
Now, he is hoping to return to Canada and his lawyer believes the Makars have a "robust case" to make to Canadian immigration officers, however the backlog within the immigration system stay a big hurdle.
"I feel we'll in the end get a optimistic resolution. I am assured of that. Now we have good details and I consider that when you may have good details, you normally get resolution," immigration lawyer Barbara Jo Caruso instructed CTV Information Channel on Friday.
Makar and his spouse, Svitlana, first got here to Canada in 2016. Though their three youngsters had been all born in Canada and are thus Canadian residents, they had been deported to Ukraine after their case to remain within the nation on humanitarian and compassionate grounds wasn't authorised.
After the battle broke out, the Makars made the lengthy journey throughout the Polish border after which to Germany. They finally landed in Switzerland, the place they're being hosted by a Swiss household.
"(The youngsters) have a proper to come back to Canada. Sadly, their mother and father aren't Canadian residents and haven't got a proper," Caruso stated.
"However they've at all times abided by Canadian legislation and that's undoubtedly of their favour, as is the truth that they've paid taxes right here. There aren't any criminality points. They've English abilities. They've a job ready for them," she continued.
Whereas Caruso is hopeful that the Makars get their case authorised this month, she says there are practically 100,000 circumstances forward of theirs which might be nonetheless pending.
"I am just a little involved on the time that that is taking. We're six weeks into having filed their software and though it has a layer of complexity that different functions could not have, the delay is, in my thoughts, nonetheless considerably unreasonable," she stated.
Including to the backlog is the Canada-Ukraine authorization for emergency journey, granting "an infinite" quantity displace Ukrainians short-term work and research visas for up three years. Caruso and different immigration legal professionals have been calling for measures that will pace up processing, resembling issuing digital visas for Ukrainians somewhat than bodily counterfoil visas.
"At 25 years doing this, I've by no means seen backlogs like this earlier than. It is unprecedented and the timing could not have been worse for this disaster to occur when the federal government already had 1.8 million functions," stated Caruso.
Within the meantime, Makar and his household have been making an attempt to regulate to their new life in Switzerland and making an attempt to study German and French.
"I simply hope that I shut my eyes and are available again and that is completed and all of the ache is gone," Makar instructed CTV Information Channel on Friday. "We have suffered a lot."
With information from CTVNews.ca author Michael Lee
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