Refuge Immigration Canada
Refugee Protection
Canada is a party or signatory to the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol. That is why each year Canada awards permanent residence to around 30,000 refugees under an intricate refugee protection procedure consisting of two key components, the Refugee and Humanitarian Resettlement Program controlled outside Canada and the In-Canada Refugee Protection Process.
A convention refugee is an individual who unsettled to a well-found panic of being mistreated for reasons of race, belief, ethnic group, association of a specific social group. Or political view, is exterior the country of his nationality and is incapable to or, owing to such fright, is reluctant to avail himself of the safety of that country.
An individual in requirement of safety is an individual in Canada whose elimination to their country of nationality. Or previous expected dwelling would subject them to the choice of cruelty, threat of life, or risk of painful and rare behavior or sentence.
The majority of accepted refugees are decided asylum status within Canada and make their privilege at a Canadian port of entry or at an inland Canada Immigration Centre office. In maximum case refugees get asylum status at the entry points of Canada on the basis of humanity.
Once a CIC officer agrees that a refugee protection applicant is qualified to be referred, the entitlement is directed to the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) where a hearing or inquiry takes place in front of an autonomous tribunal comprised of Refugee Protection Division members. Then, they will decide whether the claimant or petitioner is a convention refugee or an individual in need of shelter.
The hearing even though non adversarial in nature habitually takes place in the attendance of the candidate’s lawful counsel and the government’s refugee claims officer. If accepted the claimant may apply for permanent habitation from within Canada. The procedure is normally settles in about 18 months.
Earlier to the hearing claimants may be allowed under Canadian law to get work approval or student permission.
There are some groups of individuals are not qualified to have their claim referred to the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB).
There are a number of matters that can influence on the achievement or disappointment of a refugee claim. However, readers can get more information may be gained by a communicating Colin R. Singer, Attorney – csinger@immigration.ca.