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 ...
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 ...
It seems like an unremarkable site. A temporary building made of corrugated steel. A single white pillar outside, marking the official line between two countries. But for the tens of thousands of asylum seekers who have made the journey to that site over the past several years – many of them travelling for days, weeks, sometimes years just to get ...
A group of Afghans who worked on Canadian-funded projects intended to promote the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan say they are now stuck in neighbouring Pakistan and running out of money for food and rent, more than a year after they thought they would be resettled in Canada. They fled to Pakistan after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan. This week, ...
Sarina Faizy breathed a massive sigh of relief when her family was evacuated from Afghanistan almost six months ago after urging the Canadian government to help. But now she's confused and afraid because her father, who has been housed in a Toronto hotel since August, recently received a letter from the Canada Border Services Agency saying he may not be ...
