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Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team: Citizenship And Immigration Canada

Canadian Soldiers Dept: Esmatullah Meherzada, like hundreds of Afghans, worked with Canadian soldiers on the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team. Now that the war is over, he worried Taliban fighters will kill him for the work he did, according to CBC. Meherzada said last August he received a rejection letter from Canadian immigration officials saying he was not trustworthy, and may even be an insurgent and A man who worked alongside Canadian Forces troops during the war in Afghanistan has been denied entry to Canada. Meherzada qualified to emigrate to Canada under a special program started in 2009 and closed in 2011. But after he applied to Citizenship and Immigration Canada, he was flatly denied. The Current : Afghan translator and his efforts to emigrate to Canada (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.