Inbox for Afghan interpreter applications crashes
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Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, responds to questions in Vancouver, on Wednesday, July 28, 2021. Freeland says the federal government s goal is to have Afghans who assisted Canada and are now facing danger on planes out of the war-torn country as quickly as possible.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
OTTAWA – The email address where Afghan interpreters were told to send their application forms under an urgent resettlement plan crashed Thursday, snarling what applicants and Canadian veterans are calling an already chaotic process.
“The recipient’s mailbox is full and can’t accept messages right now. Please try resending your message later, or contact the recipient directly,” reads the automated response to two submissions and seen by The Canadian Press.
Inbox for Afghan interpreter applications crashes
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He is staying with relatives in Afghanistan and, like two other former interpreters The Canadian Press spoke with who are already in Canada, fears for the safety of his extended family as the Taliban seizes swaths of the country. It is also very dangerous for them to live here, Rahim said of his parents, sister-in-law and four nephews and nieces aged 11 to 23. If they capture any person of my family, I am sure they will get revenge on them.
Government officials have told him he must provide documentation of the destroyed home to prove his parents are under threat, he said, but the property is in a district now controlled by the Taliban and effectively inaccessible to those on the run.