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The Refugee Support Group of the Anglican Diocese of Calgary does not take applications directly from refugees. A sponsor group in Southern Alberta is the point of contact.

Most of our sponsors already know the refugees they would like to bring to Canada.  Most often they sponsor family members or a refugee known to someone in the sponsoring group. The sponsors must be living in Southern Alberta and can demonstrate they have the ability to meet all sponsorship criteria.

Parishes in the Diocese of Calgary receive many more requests for sponsorship than we have the ability to support. 

Please understand that there is a very large demand for resettlement and that only a very small percentage of refugees will be resettled. It is the UNHCR that determines which refugees will be referred for possible resettlement.

To come to Canada as a refugee, you must be referred. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), a designated referral organization, may refer refugees to the Canadian Government visa office.  Visa Office-Referred (VOR) cases are referred refugees who have been identified overseas by a visa officer as in need of resettlement, but who have no sponsor. They have been determined to be eligible and admissible and are generally ready to travel to Canada once a match has been made. 

For more information: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/refugees/help-outside-canada.html

 

Andre Visscher
Refugee Ministry Coordinator
the Anglican Diocese of Calgary

Email: anglicancalgaryrefugee@gmail.com