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Anya Sass and Habib Alibrahim

Habib Alibrahim: "All we want to do is leave here. We want to just go to Canada and have a normal life," said Anya Sass, who was born and raised in Calgary. , according to CBC. Sass said she was travelling through the Middle East three years ago, on a break from post-secondary studies, when she met Habib Alibrahim , fell in love, and married him. Syrian Habib Alibrahim and his Canadian wife, Anya Sass, must wait another 24 months in a war-torn suburb of Damascus for permission from Ottawa for him to move to Canada. Skype A Canadian woman and her Syrian husband are speaking out from a Damascus suburb because they're frightened and desperate to flee the escalating danger together. They're distraught because her government is doing nothing to help. forces 130,000 Syrians to flee to Turkey in 4 days Open doors to Syrian refugees, Canada urged Syrian refugees top 3 million, UN says "We are living in fear every day I feel like it not being taken seriously. They are just saying, orry you are in a war zone but that too bad. We have a lot of paperwork to do.'" (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.