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The Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement (ATCR) event

Refugee Rights Day is celebrated each year in Canada on April 4th.

The Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship announced an increase in the number of refugees that Sponsorship Agreement Holders (SAHs) can sponsor, to 13,500 by 2023.

Last January 2023, U.S. Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken, announced the launch of a new private sponsorship of refugees program, Welcome Corps.

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The Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, announced the arrival in Canada of over 250 Afghan refugees, including 170 human rights defenders, as government-assisted refugees.

If you want to donate gently used items (furniture, clothes, … ) , you can contact 211 Ontario.

The Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship announced the arrival of the first charter flight of privately sponsored Afghan refugees.

The Refugee Sponsorship Training Program (RSTP) announces that IRCC’s Blended Visa Office-Referred (BVOR) program will restart in early 2022.

The Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP) has increased its income support levels in order to ensure RAP continues to align basic monthly income support amounts with provincial social assistance rates and that RAP rates continue to respond to financial needs of resettled refugees.