Contact: Sergii Kolodii

Email:[email protected]

Phone: 403-320-1589

Service Location: 1107 – 2 Ave. A  North, Lethbridge, AB

Office Hours:

8:30 AM—4:30PM

Monday—Friday, Closed Statutory holidays

Settlement Services for Ukrainian Nationals

Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has created the Canada-Ukraine authorization for emergency travel (CUAET) measures to provide Ukrainians and their dependents a temporary safe haven in Canada. Through this measure, Ukrainians and their dependents will be able to work and study while in Canada for up to three years.

Since Ukrainian temporary residents (TRs) who were in Canada prior to the outbreak of the war cannot return home, the CUAET measures also allows them to extend their visitor status, work permit or study permit.

In support of this initiative, IRCC has amended the Settlement Program’s Terms and Conditions to temporarily extend eligibility to Ukrainian temporary residents and their dependents to all federally-funded settlement services. The eligibility of the Program’s Terms and Conditions now includes the following clause:

"all Ukrainian temporary residents and their dependents in Canada are deemed eligible persons until March 31, 2023"

Lethbridge Family Services are in a position to serve Ukrainian temporary residents and their dependents (including their dependents who are not Ukrainian nationals), immediately.

In order to be eligible for settlement services, clients will need to demonstrate that they:

  1. Are a Ukrainian national OR the dependent* of a Ukrainian temporary resident

dependent child of their spouse/common-law partner; the dependent child of their

dependent child. The dependent can be of any nationality

.

AND