Refugee Claimants: Year and Refugee

refugee claimants: Steve Russell / Toronto Star By Ainslie Cruickshank Staff Reporter Sun., July 23, 2017 The year Sebastian Commock spent waiting for his refugee hearing was the most agonizing, frustrating year of his life, according to Toronto Star. I'm still not fully recovered from that year, and that was just one year, he said. He has started an advocacy group to help support refugee claimants who have waited years to have their claims heard. With his own experience of being in limbo behind him, Commock has turned his attention to refugee claimants who've been waiting five years or in some cases more for hearings to decide whether they can remain in Canada. Their claims were filed before Dec. 15, 2012, which means they aren't subject to tighter timelines established by the former Conservative government. As of March, there were 5,514 so-called legacy refugee claimants whose cases haven't been decided. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.