{"id":2757,"date":"2018-01-17T00:54:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T05:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2018-03-08T23:54:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T04:54:58","slug":"i-have-a-country-now-canadas-newest-citizens-get-sworn-in-during-dartmouth-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/i-have-a-country-now-canadas-newest-citizens-get-sworn-in-during-dartmouth-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I have a country now\u2019: Canada\u2019s newest citizens get sworn-in during Dartmouth ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018I have a country now\u2019: Canada\u2019s newest citizens get sworn-in during Dartmouth ceremony<\/h1>\n

\u201cLiving as a refugee means you have no rights. There was no life, no future because you cannot attend school, you cannot get a good job because you have no documents,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ibrahim was one of 42 people from 20 countries around the world who were sworn-in as Canada\u2019s newest citizens at a ceremony in Dartmouth on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt least I feel I have a country now. At least I feel like when people ask me I say, \u2018Yes, I\u2019m from Canada,’\u201d Ibrahim said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It wasn\u2019t just former refugees who gained their citizenship.<\/p>\n

American-born families were also on hand to complete their final step in becoming Canadian. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018I have a country now\u2019: Canada\u2019s newest citizens get sworn-in during Dartmouth ceremony<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018I have a country now\u2019: Canada\u2019s newest citizens get sworn-in during Dartmouth ceremony \u201cLiving as a refugee means you have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2758,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}