UPEI: Hosseinzadeh

Iranian Passport Dept: Last week the Iranian embassy in Ottawa was shut down as Canada cut off diplomatic ties, according to CBC. Like most Iranians on campus, Hosseinzadeh is a landed immigrant. His parents came to P.E.I. through the Provincial Nominee Program. Like other landed immigrants, however, he still carries an Iranian passport, and he now has nowhere in Canada to renew it and dozens of Iranian students at UPEI are concerned about the state of relations between Canada and Iran, and how they themselves could be affected. Visiting family at home in Iran could be more difficult for UPEI student Amir Hosseinzadeh now that Canada has cut off diplomatic relations. "It really was shocking news, first of all. We didn't expect to hear that," said student Amir Hosseinzadeh, President of the UPEI Iranian Society, which has 30 members. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.