Although, as one former refugee told us, it doesn't matter where you stay when you arrive.
Elisangela Gomes, 36, another former refugee, left Guinea Bissau in 1998 and settled in Portugal.
Mr. Rahmatullah and his wife, Jamila, another former refugee, have just had their first child, a daughter.
A former refugee from Sudan, Majok had not been eligible until the end of the 2009 fall semester.
"I think they should take more because I was a former refugee and I know how that felt.
The letter prompted Ms Jean, a former refugee from Haiti, to cut short a trip to Europe to rush back to Ottawa.
Helic is a member of the House of Lords and a former refugee, having escaped the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s.
"Osman was very sophisticated," said Chris Oace, a former refugee worker for Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon who helped the family resettle here in the early 1990s.
The Labour Party (Darbo partija) led by by Viktor Uspaskich, a controversial former refugee to Russia who is battling criminal charges, won 17 seats.
Fighting continued on Saturday, with pro-government forces intensifying the siege around eastern Aleppo and capturing a former refugee camp overlooking roads into the area.
Tobin brought along a former refugee who now had a good job at an Indiana hotel, as an example of how successful the resettlement process was.
