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The announcement followed weeks of pressure from Canadian veterans and grassroots groups such as Afghan-Canadian Interpreters, which has been in direct contact with hundreds of people desperate to escape to Canada.
Yet despite those direct contacts and the urgency of the situation, Afghan-Canadian Interpreters director Wendy Long says Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has largely cut out her group and others.
That has manifested in the department’s refusal to consult with them or accept hundreds of applications with supporting documentation compiled by the group over the past eight weeks and verified with help fromthe Canadian Armed Forces, which has been working with her organization.