People who fear from returning to their home country are eligible to make claim for protection in Canada. The country offers refugee protection to those persons whose removal from Canada could cause risk of their life or subject to cruel or unusual treatment or punishment.
Refugee claims can be considered for persons who have risk of facing discrimination on the basis of religion, politics, race, nationality. Claims can also be made on the risk of security, torture or risk of life.
In such cases, firstly the claim is processed by immigration department, and then the application is forwarded to the Immigration and Refugee Board where relevance of the claim is determined with respect to the circumstances mentioned in the application. For any assistance, please contact us.