The federal government is facing calls to suspend a long-standing agreement with the U.S. to return asylum seekers at the border, with immigration experts saying the United States should no longer be considered a safe place for people fleeing persecution.
A backlog of 267,000 cases at the tribunal that hears asylum claims in Canada risks rising even further if a predicted influx of asylum claimants crosses the border from the U.S. after president-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, immigration experts say. The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) has a backlog four times higher than it was two years ...
For over a year, Ottawa has been urging Canadians to leave Lebanon for their own safety. But for some, with Lebanese husbands and wives, the decision comes with an impossible choice: Do they leave the war-torn country for security in Canada, or stay so their loved ones are not left behind? Among the Canadians who feel they have no option ...
Canada is facing a rocky four years. The results of Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election carry massive implications for the Canadian economy, which depends, in large part, on a healthy trade relationship with its wealthy southern neighbour. Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris has pitched an “opportunity economy” with lower costs for health care and housing, and higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy, ...
Landings LLP is pleased to be recognized on the Globe and Mail’s list of “Canada’s Best Law Firms” for 2025. We are proud to be one of only five immigration law firms in the country that have received this distinction! Almost 25,000 lawyers, along with in-house lawyers and legal executives working in legal departments across Canada, were invited to take ...
Premier François Legault has made immigration a major focus of his visit to Paris, demanding that the federal government force asylum seekers in Quebec to move elsewhere, including people who have already settled in the province. Half of the would-be refugees currently in Quebec should be transferred to other provinces, he told reporters on Wednesday at the offices of the Quebec ...
The Federal Court is launching a new initiative to streamline how it reviews refused study permit applications. This comes as the number of immigration cases coming before the court continues to surge for the third consecutive year, with filings expected to reach 24,000 by the end of the December — about four times the yearly average in the five years ...
When Arwa Almsrawi’s plane lifted off in Saudi Arabia, beginning a journeythat was to take her to Vancouver, she couldn’t help but dream of the new lifethat awaited her on the other side. A transgender woman from Syria, Almsrawi had been granted refugee status by Canada, following a referral from the U.N. Refugee Agency. After fleeing civil war in her ...
A former member of an Ethiopian spy agency that targeted that country’s journalists and dissidents abroad is eligible to apply for refugee status in Canada because his spy activities were “not contrary to Canada’s interests,” the Federal Court of Appeal has ruled. Medhanie Weldemariam, who worked as a software developer for an Ethiopian state security agency, landed at Toronto’s Pearson ...
The federal government is facing mounting criticism over an immigration program that’s meant to reunite Canadians and permanent residents with their relatives who are trapped in Gaza. People trying to bring their loved ones here, and the lawyers representing them, say the program is restrictive, confusing and intrusive. The Globe spoke with several Palestinian-Canadians and permanent residents, as well as ...
