Immigration Policy Dept: Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney originally announced the program to assist Afghans who face extraordinary personal risk because of their support to Canada s mission in Kandahar, according to The Star. By the end of May, only 25 of 114 applicants had been approved to move to Canada by a committee made up of officials from the departments of National Defence, Foreign Affairs, International Development and Immigration and Citizenship and kANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN Ottawa s promised fast-track immigration policy for Afghan translators has left many interpreters stuck in ting blocks and fearing for their lives. Kenney said he expected a few hundred successful applicants to qualify by the time the mission and the program ends in 2011. As
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