In one of Canada’s recent disappointments in efforts to help Afghan refugees, a prominent Afghan activist rejected the application for a temporary residence permit, apparently due to a bureaucratic error, as Bessa, Watemur, and Charen Craig have been working for seven months to safely bring Farzana Adel Ghadia (the human rights activist) to Ottawa. As sponsors, both Watemur and Craig agreed to open their home for Ghadia and ensure her safety once she could reach Canada. For more than a decade, Ghadia has fought for women's rights in Afghanistan, has worked with the United Nations, and is also considered Hazara, an ethnic minority targeted by the Taliban. Ghadia was forced to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban took control in August 2021, where she was waiting in a third country until Canada would accept her. But due to a bureaucratic error, her application for a temporary residence permit was assessed as a visa application and was rejected. Ghadia told CTV National News: "It has been really frustrating for me, but I have a lot of support from the Canadian people," as her sponsors say the rejection was due to negligence by the government. Watemur also stated: "Someone didn’t read the application, or it might have been checked by a machine. I think someone didn’t look at it carefully because it was rejected for something she did not apply for." Also, Canada has highlighted women’s rights activists and women from Afghanistan as a refugee group vulnerable to Taliban retaliation. But now, Ghadia has returned to square one in her quest to escape to Canada. Craig said to CTV News: "She has been taken care of, she is loved, and she needs us because she is alone." Canada has not yet fulfilled its commitment to resettle 40,000 Afghan refugees, as since the fall of Kabul in August 2021, Canada has welcomed more than 21,000 Afghan refugees in 14 months. But since January 2022, nearly 100,000 Ukrainians have arrived in Canada, most fleeing the war — more than four times the number of Afghan refugees in less time. Jenny Kwan, a member of parliament from the New Democratic Party for East Vancouver, told CTV National News that many "feel this practice is discriminatory," saying: "The truth is the government does not offer the same immigration procedures or similar procedures to Afghans and they are falling behind." In the same context, immigration officials say Ghadia can reapply and that they will launch a new program to help more Afghans by removing the requirement to have status from the United Nations Refugee Agency.