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Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   28 March 2024

Hundreds of Syrian-Armenian and Iraqi Armenian refugees are waiting for completion of application process in Canada

Hundreds of Syrian-Armenian and Iraqi Armenian refugees are waiting for completion of 
application process in Canada

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 22, ARMENPRESS. 500 Syrian-Armenian families and 4 thousand Iraqi Armenians have settled in Canada during the last 5 years.

Hundreds of other refugees are waiting for the completion of the application process. Vice-chair of the Armenian-Canadian Conservative Association Sevan Hajinian informed “Armenpress” about the latter. According to Hajinian, Armenians mainly immigrate to Canada by means of the so-called sponsorship agreements which means that an organization, family member or an acquaintance assumes responsibility to take care of the immigrant’s stay for a year in that country.

After the civil war started in Syria in 2011, about 9 million Syrians were displaced immigrating to other countries or other regions of Syria. According to the data of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, over 3 million immigrated to neighboring countries: Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, and only 150 thousand to European countries.

According to the data of the Government of the Republic of Armenia, 17 thousand citizens of Syria have arrived in Armenia since the beginning of the conflict; the majority of them are ethnic Armenians. About 13 thousand have remained in Armenia according to July 2015 data.

The Government of the Republic of Armenia provides them with the possibility of acquiring Republic of Armenia citizenship through a simplified procedure (15 thousand persons have already acquired Republic of Armenia citizenship), accelerated asylum procedures, entry visa issuing procedure, mid-term or long-term resident status. 








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