Student moves from Jordan to N.B. for pilot program, then learns rules have changed

Omar Burqan moved his family more than 8,000 kilometres from Jordan to Fredericton based on a 2001 news release from the New Brunswick government about an immigration pilot program. 

The 29-year-old registered at an approved college for an approved program and began his studies in January at the Atlantic Business College. By the summer, his wife and 3½-year-old son joined him in Fredericton. 

But at the same time the family was reunited, the…