Daycare Provider: Massive Outpouring

Family Reunification Dept: But Occessite hadn't bargained with Canadian immigration bureaucracy. It would take another eight months for the Montreal daycare provider to receive final approval for her refugee claim, and 10 long months before she was reunited with her two children, whom she had left in the care of a friend in Haiti, according to Montreal Gazette. The quake, which killed an estimated 225,000 people and left more than a million homeless, drew a massive outpouring of support from Canadians and promises by the Quebec government to streamline family reunification and when Eline Occessite's application for refugee status was fast-tracked in August 2009, eight months after fleeing would-be kidnappers in her native Haiti, she thought her problems would soon be over. The devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12 would make the wait the most terrifying experience of her life. As reported in the news.
@t native haiti, refugee claim