Inside Canada

Each year Canada grants permanent residence to approximately 30,000 refugees under an elaborate refugee protection.

A convention refugee is a person who is in fear of being persecuted, and is unable to or, owing such a fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of his own country for reasons of race, religion, political opinion, or a membership of a particular social group. A person in need of protection is a person whose removal to his country of nationality would put him in danger of torture, cruel punishment, or risk of life.

As of December 15, 2012, the Personal Information Form has been replaced by the Basis of Claim Form.

With the new system, refugee claimants will get a hearing date within a short period of their application submit, while on the other hand, before the new system the time frame between the submission of the application and the hearing fate was unknown and it took a very long time.

 The Canadian Government, with the new system, has made a huge improvement to the immigration system. People in need of Canada’s protection will get it faster, and can live safely sooner.

For more information about refugee programs you can visit Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada website: (http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/Eng/Pages/index.aspx)

Outside Canada

Each year Canada grants permanent residence to approximately 30,000 refugees under an elaborate refugee protection.

A convention refugee is a person who is in fear of being persecuted, and is unable to or, owing such a fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of his own country for reasons of race, religion, political opinion, or a membership of a particular social group. A person in need of protection is a person whose removal to his country of nationality would put him in danger of torture, cruel punishment, or risk of life.

People who can be resettled from outside Canada fall into two classes.

1) Convention Refugee Abroad Class

You may be in this class if you:

• Are outside your home country and cannot return there due to a well-founded fear of persecution based on the reasons mentioned above (race, religion,…etc)

• Outside Canada and want to come to Canada.

• Referred by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) or another referral organization, or be sponsored by a private sponsorship group, and

• Selected as a government- assisted or privately sponsored refugee, or have the funds to support yourself and any dependants after you arrive in Canada

2) Country of Asylum Class

You may be in this class if you:

• are outside your home country or the country where you normally live and have been, and continue to be, seriously and personally affected by civil war or armed conflict, or have suffered massive violations of human rights.

• Outside Canada,

• referred by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) or another referral organization or be sponsored by a private sponsorship group, and

• privately sponsored, or have the funds needed to support yourself and any dependants after you arrive in Canada.