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Canada warns asylum seekers it's no shortcut to immigration as border arrests rise and international student claims hit ...
Canada had an average of 109 claims a day across the country from Sept. 18 to Jan. 18, compared with a daily average of 212 during the same period a year ago.
In all of 2019, 552 people made a claim against Lebanon, and 439 claims were made in all of 2018, according to statistics from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.
Canada must overhaul its refugee claim system or create a new agency that reports to the immigration minister in order to streamline and expedite the asylum process, an independent review has ...
Canada accepted 3,469 refugee claims from India in 2022, the highest total in at least the last 20 years, according to the federal data. There were fewer than 20 accepted claims in 2014.
Figures published by Canada’s immigration, refugees and citizenship agency show that 7,280 asylum claims were processed in September, up from totals ranging between 3,880 and 5,550 over the ...
Under a Canada-US agreement, asylum seekers travelling through the United States would be turned away at Canadian border checkpoints, and told to file a refugee claim in the United States.
The backlog of pending refugee-claims is now over 260,000. When the Liberals took power, the number was only 9,999. What happened?