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    Coming from the U.S. to claim refugee status in Canada

    Probably, you guys are right. I don't like to be burden on some people's shoulder. Even though I earn my own livelihood and even I pay my taxes to the government, I don't like to be pointed at that I was sometime a burden on Canadians and that they paid for my shelter and food. We have a saying...
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    Coming from the U.S. to claim refugee status in Canada

    Come on, guys. Don't be too sarcastic. It is not only your Canada. it is peoples' Canada. What makes Canada great is its openness to suppressed people of the world. Otherwise, it could not have achieved its status of today; in that case, you would not, probably, be sitting like that worrying...
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    Coming from the U.S. to claim refugee status in Canada

    Thank you, Scylla. The Safe Third Country agreement makes certain exceptions, which also include visitors coming from the U.S. with proper visa except transit one. Cannot I apply to refugee status under this category?
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    Coming from the U.S. to claim refugee status in Canada

    I am a journalist, and I did my 2-years master's degree in the U.S. My home country is one of the worst places to be a journalist on the face of the earth. While I was in the U.S., I published several articles on the Internet, ran a blog and a website, which contain articles critical of my...