Laila Joud with her mother, Sawsan Youssef and father, Ghiath Joud, during a visit to Ottawa.will be invited to apply beginning Oct.10 — but for the fourth consecutive year, those invitations will only be delivered to eligible applicants who expressed interest by 2020.
"We try not to make any promises," said Laila Joud, 34, who wants to sponsor her parents so they can move from Syria to Ottawa to live with her family. Joud is now a permanent resident who moved to Canada from Syria via Qatar with her husband and child in 2019. She was also pregnant at the time.
"We don't understand the rationale behind it," said Joud, who was hopeful the government would take new ITS applicants this year. Laila Joud moved to Ottawa from Syria by way of Qatar in 2019 with her husband and child. She was also pregnant at the time."I think everybody can agree that having the last expression of interest, the last ability to put your name in, in 2020, that is really unfair," said Tamara Mosher-Kuczer, senior lawyer and founder at Lighthouse Immigration Law.