As the war in Ukraine approaches a bleak second anniversary, one couple in Nova Scotia is proving there are still happy endings.
Scott Stephenson of Dartmouth met Anna Babkova while he was on vacation in Ukraine in 2019. They were married in Kyiv in September of 2020 with intentions to move to Canada together.
They would endure war and pandemic before arriving in the province on Dec. 28 — two and a half years after their immigration process began.
“It was shocking to me how long it took,” Stephenson said.
Babkova applied for a visitor visa in the summer of 2021 using her Russian passport, with the intention of applying for permanent residency after she
