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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷6/30/2017 12:21:03 am PDT

Syrian doctor hit by Trump’s Muslim travel ban decamps to Canada instead.
theguardian.com

(More at The Guardian)

He was one of the many whose lives were thrown into chaos by Donald Trump’s travel ban - a Syrian doctor who works with the United Nations and was pursuing an Ivy League education in the United States.

But after months of living in limbo, Khaled Almilaji has put a definitive end to the uncertainty - by moving to Canada.

Almilaji, 35, arrived in Toronto earlier this month, days before the US supreme court paved the way for a limited version of the travel ban, which targets seven Muslim-majority countries, to be implemented. It is due to take effect on Thursday at 8pm ET.

While he might have been able to get student visa under the scaled-back ban, Almilaji said Canada was a safer bet that would allow him to continue to travel to Turkey to carry out humanitarian work.

“This chance to be in Canada, it will allow me to improve my knowledge and keep working for my country - Syria - by going back and forth to Turkey,” he said.

In 2016, Almilaji and his wife, physician Jehan Mouhsen, moved to Rhode Island so that he could pursue a postgraduate degree in public health at Brown University. In January, when Trump’s first attempt at a travel ban went into effect, Almilaji - a renowned doctor who in 2013 risked his life to deliver vaccines to 1.4 million Syrian children to curtail a polio outbreak in a rebel-held area - was on a short aid mission in Turkey.