Families around the world are anxiously awaiting the end of COVID-19 travel restrictions so they can finally relocate their lives and businesses to Winnipeg.

While many immigration processes have ground to a near halt during the pandemic, processing for the entrepreneurial route of gaining residency in Canada has pushed ahead under the country’s startup visa program.

Selim Aslan, a civil engineer by training, is waiting to move to Winnipeg with his wife and three children from Istanbul. Along with them, he is looking to bring a business founded on proprietary technology used to build commercial and residential docks and other floating platforms.
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