Sponsors: Syrian and Government

sponsors: Syrian refugee sponsorship 'blitz' ends with thousands of arrivals still months away Refugee sponsors frustrated by delays hold 'emergency meeting' The current offer only applies to a small section of privately sponsored Syrian refugees — those on the government Blended Visa Office-Referred list — for which the government and private sponsors split the costs, according to CBC. Since March, about 140 Syrian BVOR cases have been delayed. If you know the people, you're not going to give up on them." The government has been under increasing pressure to respond to the complaints of private sponsors still waiting for refugees to arrive. The government made non-travel-ready cases available to sponsorship groups to meet the "overwhelming interest in BVOR sponsorship during the Syrian resettlement initiative." Sponsors were warned at the time that their refugee families still had to be screened. "Some of these cases are currently on hold pending security/criminality and/or medical checks," said Lindsay Wemp of the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, in an email. We hope they find their way to Canada' The government has promised to bring over the refugees who have been replaced as government-assisted refugees if their cases are eventually approved. The new refugees will have already passed their medical and security screening. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.