Now he hopes to return to Canada, and his lawyer believes the Maccars have a “strong case” to make to Canadian immigration officials, but delays in the immigration system remain a major hurdle.
“I think we will finally make a positive decision. I am sure of that. We have good data and I believe that when you have good data, you usually make a good decision,” immigration lawyer Barbara Jo Caruso told CTV News Channel.  the manufacture.
Makar and his wife, Svitlana, first came to Canada in 2016. Although their three children were all born in Canada and are therefore Canadian citizens, they were deported to Ukraine on the grounds of remaining in the country for humanitarian and compassionate reasons. was not approved.
After the outbreak of war, the Makars made the long journey across the Polish border and then to Germany.  They finally landed in Switzerland, where they are hosted by a Swiss family.
“(Children) have the right to come to Canada. Unfortunately, their parents are not Canadian citizens and they do not have the right,” Caruso said.
“But they have always obeyed Canadian law and that is definitely to their advantage, as well as the fact that they have paid taxes here. There are no crime issues. They know English. They have a job waiting for them,” he said.  goes on.
While Caruso hopes the Maccars will approve their case this month, she says there are nearly 100,000 cases ahead of their own that are still pending.
“I’m a little worried at the moment it’s going on. We have six weeks to submit their application and although it has a level of complexity that other applications may not have, the delay is, in my opinion, still somewhat absurd,” he said.
Added to the backlog is the Canada-Ukraine mandate for emergency travel, which grants an “unlimited” number of temporary work and study visas to Ukrainians for up to three years.  Caruso and other immigration lawyers have called for measures to speed up the process, such as issuing electronic visas to Ukrainians instead of physical visas.
“In the 25 years I have been doing this, I have never seen such a backlog. It is unprecedented and the time could not have been worse for this crisis to happen when the government already had 1.8 million applications,” Caruso said.
Meanwhile, Makar and his family are trying to adjust to their new life in Switzerland and trying to learn German and French.
“I just hope to close my eyes and go back and it ‘s over and all the pain is gone,” Makar told CTV News Channel on Friday.  “We have suffered so much.”
With files from Michael Lee.