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The goal of such a measure will be to and permanent residents formed sponsorship ensure the reflection of the SAH community’s views Groups of Five, and some community groups also in policy making pertaining to refugees. [...] This poses in Canada joined sponsorship groups to sponsor challenges to the speedy processing of applications, their families and friends in refugee camps in since the government may not have the capacity, in Turkey and Lebanon, among others. [...] The ministry discovered that amid other concerns, sponsors desired faster decision-making by visa officers and increased communication with visa posts.2 7 To address some of these concerns, the head of the International Refugee and Migration Policy Branch formed the NGO-Government Committee on the Private Sponsorship of Refugees.3 Through this platform, sponsors could dialogue with the government [...] There are concerns that this has “created a two-tier system and sent the wrong message to other refugees, particularly the sub-cap populations.” Thus, some SAHs urge the government to respond equitably to all applications received, “on the basis of 9 vulnerability and not nationality.” “That high number, they won’t just be Syrians, they’re going to be looking at The government has acknowledged tha [...] Regarding the resettlement of Syrian understanding that the government can only refugees in 2016, an interview respondent resettle a small percentage of global refugees, and suggested that “instead of the government being so the private sector can contribute significantly to hard pressed to bring in the quota they had provide resettlement opportunities for many more promised, they could have put m