Refugee Claim: Resident I and Country Agreement

refugee claim: The 25-year-old chef, who dreams of one day opening his own restaurant, has crossed the first hurdle to establishing a new life in Hamilton, according to Hamilton Spectator. Beltran has been granted an exception to the Safe Third Country Agreement to enter Canada and make a refugee claim. Alvaro Beltran's long run from El Salvador's notorious gangs is over, for now at least, and maybe forever. If successful, he will become a permanent resident of Canada. Margaret Rivas,A refugee from El Salvador and now a permanent resident I was praying to God and putting myself in His hands and hope that He's going to make the doors open, Beltran said. I felt very happy because I was in a safe country that I knew Canada would be, but I felt sad because I left my country and part of my family, my friends, my work. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.