Care Homes: Refugee Claims and Canadian Authorities

care homes: This meant they ended up at the front lines of the pandemic, caring for elderly patients at the long-term care homes that have been hit extremely hard by the virus, according to CTV. Now some who work with them are asking Canadian authorities to thank these workers with a more reliable path to citizenship, essentially allowing them to switch from the uncertain refugee claims process to an immigration process. Hundreds of asylum seekers, most of whom crossed into Quebec through Roxham Road in recent years, got jobs as orderlies while they waited for their refugee claims to be settled. They could live here as an immigrant, and after three years or four years they could apply as to be a citizen, said Marjorie Villefranche, the director of the Maison d'Haiti community centre in Saint-Michel. Many of them got apartments in the surrounding neighbourhood, and jobs in the health system, helping explain the sky-high rates of COVID infection in Saint-Michel right now. Complete coverage at newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox The Maison d'Haiti single-handedly resettled 5,000 of the 27,000 asylum-seekers who arrived in Montreal in the last three years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.