Estimate for Refugee Hearing Date for Refugee Claim Filed 2025

[wiener]

- Most likely your hearing date will not be in 2025.
- Most claims submitted this year are not being scheduled for 2025 hearings. Many who submitted claims in 2024 are still waiting for a date.
- Make sure anything you submit is accurate and complete and submitted on time for the file to be processes accurately.
- There is no way for you to prioritize your application.
- Yes, it's possible to claim asylum after 7 years in Canada. You will want to make sure you have strong evidence of what has recently changed in your home country that makes an asylum claum necessary now. This needs to include evidence of how you are being specifically targeted by these new threats (vs general country conditions).

Country conditions are more crucial than specific threats. If someone has threats in stable country, members in the hearing will argue that the claimant has internal flight alternative and can move to safer regions within the country. Applicants from war torn and unstable countries have high approval rate for asylum.

 

[canuck78]

Do you mean not referring cases to IRB if applicant resides in Canada for long time. I think this is mentioned in proposed Bill C-2. Not sure if this constitutional or not. IRB states on their website that delay in making claim is not decisive factor in itself. One thing I noticed in bill C2 is that applicants who arrived in Canada before 2020 are not affected, it seems that IRCC does want to help them or expect that these people already got PR through other pathways.

Yes any changes to how asylum claims are processed or who qualifies will likely be challenged legally. The newer asylum claimants with long periods of time already may get expedited processing to try to deny the ones without grounds as far as possible.

 

[canuck78]

Country conditions are more crucial than specific threats. If someone has threats in stable country, members in the hearing will argue that the claimant has internal flight alternative and can move to safer regions within the country. Applicants from war torn and unstable countries have high approval rate for asylum.

Unstable countries is a stretch. Many still get denied from unstable countries. Way too many countries that would be deemed “unstable”. You need additional reason why you personally can’t return to your home country if there is no active conflict.

 

[wiener]

Unstable countries is a stretch. Many still get denied from unstable countries. Way too many countries that would be deemed “unstable”. You need additional reason why you personally can’t return to your home country if there is no active conflict.

RPD has country specific reports that are used to help determine outcome of refugee claims. What I mean by unstable is the countries that experience armed conflicts, civil war, political division where is more than one government, and fragile countries in which militias and other non-state actors widely exist. Most of ADR/TDR countries have these issues.

 

[canuck78]

RPD has country specific reports that are used to help determine outcome of refugee claims. What I mean by unstable is the countries that experience armed conflicts, civil war, political division where is more than one government, and fragile countries in which militias and other non-state actors widely exist. Most of ADR/TDR countries have these issues.

I know but that goes far beyond an “unstable country”.