Syrian Family: Faith-Based Organizations and Non-Syrian Refugees

syrian family: There was money collected, all kinds of furniture and everything was prepared, but we waited and a family didn't arrive until March 2017, he said, according to Metro News. The survey includes responses from 32 sponsorship agreement holders SAH across the country, most of which are faith-based organizations. The report was commissioned by Citizens for Public Justice CPJ an Ottawa-based Christian charity that tries to influence public policy debates on a number of issues, including refugee rights.CPJ executive director Joe Gunn said his own congregation in Ottawa applied to sponsor a Syrian family in autumn 2015. The length of wait times was the biggest complaint, especially for non-Syrian refugees. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada provides processing times for refugee claims on its website, broken down by country. We actually heard of cases of six and a half years' wait, Gunn said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.