Refugee/Asylum Claimants 2025 Timelines

[canuck78]

Public pushback won't change anything unless the IRPA or Refugee Protection Division Rules change as a result of them. The public can speak up, start petitions, and do more, those can eventually result in new laws being passed or regulations being changed, as we saw with Bill C-12; but as long as the regulations stay the same, processes like the Short Hearing Process or the File-Review Process will continue to exist. And in my opinion that won't change for a while due to the massive backlog of refugee claims, because the IRB has to process them somehow. Putting everyone through the full hearing process won't help that.

Agree that some form of expedited review will likely remain but given our approval rates are much higher than the rest of the world and IRB knows there are issues with fraud there will be public pressure to prioritize better vetting versus maintaining current processing speed.