Refugee claims from irregular immigrants by country in Canada 2022

Between the third quarter of 2017 and the end of 2022, the largest share of Canada's refugee applications came from people from Haiti. Among these, 2,623 had been accepted, and 5,137 had been rejected. The remaining countries with the largest share of applications were fairly spread out across the globe, although the majority of applications are believed to have come from those fleeing persecution or seeking asylum.

Number of refugee claims made by persons coming from countries of alleged persecution who crossed the border illegally in Canada from January 2017 to December 2022, by country and outcome of the claim

Characteristic	Intake	Accepted	Rejected
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-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-

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March 2023

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Region

Canada

Survey time period

January 2017 to December 2022

Supplementary notes

* The source adds the following information: "Due to privacy considerations, some values in this table have been suppressed and replaced with the notation "--". As a result, components may not be a sum of the total indicated. In general, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada suppresses values greater than 0 but less than 20."

The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada defines irregular border crossers as people who have entered Canada via official points of entry. Adapted from Statistics Canada, Demandes d’asile présentées par des personnes qui ont franchi la frontière de manière irrégulière, January 2017 to December 2022. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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