e-5083 (Citizenship and immigration)
- Keywords
- Gaza
- Immigration and immigrants
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled
- As of June 2024, no Palestinians had been evacuated from Gaza through the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) program “Crisis in Gaza: Special measures for extended family” to issue temporary visas to family members of Canadians;
- An undisclosed number of applicants have been processed by IRCC but none have been approved after being sent for review to both the Egyptian and Israeli governments;
- The arbitrary limit of 5,000 processed applications does not specify a number of approved applications and differs from similar humanitarian programs during periods of upheaval in Hong Kong, Turkey, Ukraine, and Sudan, that had no such caps; and
- The onerous level of detail required goes above and beyond what is requested by the Egyptian or Israeli governments, with some documentation difficult to obtain when a person is displaced. These requirements have been described by some experts as “unprecedented” and likewise were not required from applicants to similar programs from the countries listed above.
- Open for signature
- August 1, 2024, at 1:10 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- September 30, 2024, at 1:10 p.m. (EDT)