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 ...
The Supreme Court of Canada has imposed a limit on the power of immigration officials and government tribunals to remove foreign nationals with no criminal convictions on security grounds. In a unanimous judgment released on Wednesday, the country’s highest court says if Canada is going to deport a non-citizen on “security grounds,” authorities must show that the person poses not just ...
Raised by his great-grandmother in the Dominican Republic, Fili has few memories of his parents or his sister and two brothers, who were both murdered. When his only caregiver died, the young boy, then about 10, moved in with friends he met on the streets and started catching fish and unloading cargo at a shipping port to provide for himself. ...
HENGJIN, ALBANIA—Every couple of weeks, more of Hilai Barakzai’s neighbours pack up and leave to new homes around the world, while she waits, watches her email and wonders when it will be her turn. Barakzai got onto one of the last desperate flights out of Kabul as the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021. She flew to Pakistan, then ...
As the nine-year-old boy was shoved and pushed by the sea of desperate people behind him, his head kept turning, looking back for his parents and two younger brothers as they fell further and further behind him. When Hadisullhaq Afghanfar finally got past the front gate of the Kabul airport amid the chaos last August to board one of the ...
On the morning they left, my elderly parents, older brother, sister-in-law, nephews and niece all watched as their neighbours packed up cars filled with clothes, food and water. Women frantically urged their children into waiting cars, their faces veiled and bodies engulfed by sky-blue burkas...
The Government of Ontario has cut one-third of legal aid funding. Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) funds legal representation for those individuals whose annual income is less than $17,000 – in other words, the most impoverished in our society...
