Foreign Affairs Department

Interpreters Dept: Officials had planned for only 450 Afghans to eventually make the move when they began a special immigration program for interpreters and their families in 2009, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The original estimate was based on consultations with the military and Foreign Affairs Department about the number of interpreters or cultural advisers used by soldiers and diplomats in Kandahar, says Citizenship and Immigration and oTTAWA - A special program to offer a new life in Canada to people who acted as interpreters for Canadian soldiers and diplomats in Afghanistan sometimes at the risk of their lives has brought in nearly double the numbers expected. With Canada's combat mission ended and a year after the program stopped accepting applications, around 800 former interpreters and their families are now living across the country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.