Syrian refugee resided in an airport is granted citizenship by Canada

• Syrian refugee achieves a long-awaited milestone.
•  He slept wherever he could and ate what he could scrounge.
• Al Kontar has finally acquired Canadian citizenship after years of uncertainty.

Hassan Al Kontar, a Syrian refugee, achieves a long-awaited milestone on Wednesday. Al Kontar has finally acquired Canadian citizenship after years of uncertainty, including seven months while trapped in a Malaysian airport.

“Today is kind of a declaration of winning after all these years,”  during a phone call just before the citizenship ceremony. “Today I am stateless no more.” Kontar expressed.

Al Kontar, now 41, first caught the attention of the world in 2018 when he began to document his suffering in the airport on social media. Al Kontar, who had fled the Syrian civil conflict, was left stranded at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

While at the airport, he slept wherever he could and ate what he could scrounge.

He was accepted into Malaysia on a three-month tourist visa, but when it expired, no other country would take him. That’s when the months of living in limbo began.

His writings attracted compassion from people all across the world and brought attention to the complicated process that many people seeking refuge must go through in order to flee violence and persecution.

Al Kontar declared on Wednesday that his protracted search for asylum had finally been successful as he got ready to take the oath of citizenship of Canada. But he also considered the costs he had to pay to get here.

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