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 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.

Canada's border sees surge in families, ... some of them had actually made refugee claims in the United States, but they decided to drop all that and come to Canada to claim instead," Taillefer ...

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 ...

The backlog of pending refugee-claims is now over 260,000. When the Liberals took power, the number was only 9,999. What happened?

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. Canada’s border agency said the figures ...

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. The IRB ...

World Canada struggles with refugee surge from US. By. AFP. Published. August 18, 2017 - ...

Soldiers busily assemble tents with wooden floors, lighting and heating in Canada's Quebec province near the US border to temporarily house a surge in asylum seekers from the United States ...

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada fears a huge surge in asylum seekers crossing the border from the United States, putting political pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ahead of a ...