Privately-Sponsored Refugees: Mainland Refugees

privately-sponsored refugees: Here are a few ways of looking at those numbers, according to CBC. Most total refugees in the Lower Mainland Refugees from Syria have come to Canada in three different ways as government-assisted refugees, privately-sponsored refugees and blended visa-office referred refugees, which refers to refugees who are identified by the United Nations and matched with private sponsors. But what has been the net impact to the province's population Using numbers provided by the federal government and the Immigrant Services Society of B.C., we've been able to chart where in the province the refugees initially settled. In the past year, approximately 3,050 Syrian refugees have arrived in British Columbia about 2,150 government-assisted refugees, and about 900 sponsored and/or blended refugees. Nearly all the government-assisted refugees have arrived and settled in the Lower Mainland or the capital region, although some eventually settled in the Okanagan, Prince George or between Duncan and Nanaimo. More than 75 per cent of all of them have settled in the Lower Mainland. !function e,t,n,s var More sponsored refugees outside Metro Van Different regions of B.C. have had a different mix of refugee classifications. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.