An Iranian family living in Ottawa is desperately pleading for help and struggling to stay in Canada with their two young kids, after falling out of status and losing their jobs.
Hamid Ahmadpanah and his wife Shohreh Aghababaei arrived in Canada nine years ago; but now failed work permit extension applications have them falling through the cracks and running out of options.
"But more often than not it's the applicant who has misunderstood some small little obscure exception to the rule and, unfortunately, the system is not forgiving and requests for some sympathy often fall on deaf ears.""Next month, I don't have any money. I can't pay anything; I have to be homeless with my two children on the street," he said.
A permanent residency application was started two years ago but that’s still being processed. A new work permit application would take until 2024, they’ve been told.
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