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Well, this is a bit different...Off Topic, but interesting...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=canada
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=kosovo

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1831820/posts

“Kosovo man stranded in Canada”
Sun Media ^ | 2007-05-11 | Pablo Fernandez

Posted on 05/11/2007 2:54:20 AM PDT by Clive

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Having failed to secure refugee status, a Kosovo citizen finds trying to get home is harder than trying to stay in Canada, he said yesterday.

Presented with a deportation order two years ago, Ardian Koshi says he wants to be deported and is willing to pay for his plane ticket home but he’s trapped in Canada, unable to get back to his wife and son in Kosovo.

“My wife is now very depressed ... because I keep lying to her and telling her that I’ll be back this month, and the next month and the next month,” said Koshi.

“I will pay the ticket, I will do everything — just let me go home.”

Without documentation, Koshi, 38, arrived in Calgary on Feb. 24, 2004, and asked for refugee status. A year later, his refugee claim was denied.

With the help of his High River church and his employer, Koshi learned of the Provincial Nominee Program for foreign workers.

Koshi, who works as a truck driver with Big Horn Transport, learned he meets the requirements for the program but is unable to apply because he’s in Canada, he said.

For the last 15 months, he’s actually been trying to get deported.

The problem is he has no travel documents, which are issued by the UN and can only be obtained in Kosovo.”