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CBC
28-02-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Ukrainian Canadians on Trump-Zelenskyy meeting: ‘Our worst fears are coming to life'
Ihor Michalchyshyn and Alexandra Chyczij from the Ukrainian Canadian Congress tell Power & Politics that U.S. President Donald Trump's treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a confrontational meeting at the White House was 'shameful' and 'disgraceful' — and shows that Ukrainians cannot rely on the U.S. to end the war.
CBC
29-01-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Ukrainians in Canada worry as their 3-year emergency visas soon expire
The Ukrainian Canadian Congress is warning that many of the 300,000 Ukrainians who arrived in Canada under three-year emergency visas face an uncertain future because their temporary residencies are about to expire. Executive Director Ihor Michalchyshyn says he met with Immigration Minister Marc Miller last week to ask his department to automatically renew the visas for another three years. Miller said last week that the Ukrainians must apply for an extension to a working permit or a student visa in order to stay longer as temporary residents. The minister said that while he would not force the Ukrainians to go back to a war zone, he was not ready to grant permanent residency to all 300,000 who arrived under the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel. The federal government launched that immigration program in March 2022 and it expired two years later. In a letter sent to the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, the government of Newfoundland and Labrador says it supports an automatic extension of the emergency visas until March 31, 2028.
