Immigration And Refugee: Refugee Claims

Immigration Authorities Dept: Just-released data show that 76 per cent of the 672 refugee claims from Sri Lanka processed in 2010 were accepted by the Immigration and Refugee Board, the highest acceptance rate among the top-10 source countries for refugees. Nigeria followed with 64 per cent and Haiti with 55 per cent, according to Montreal Gazette. But the new data show that after dropping to 43 per cent in October, the acceptance rate started climbing again -to 67 per cent in November and 68 per cent in December and canada's immigration authorities took a favourable position toward refugee claims from Sri Lanka last year, despite a finding that the situation for Tamils in that country had improved. Following the arrival last August of 492 Tamil migrants aboard the MV Sun Sea, the acceptance rate for refugee claims from Sri Lanka plummeted in September to 47 per cent, prompting concerns by some refugee advocates that the "hysteria" caused by the ship's arrival might have negatively influenced decisions about Sri Lankan refugee claims. The acceptance rate had typically been greater than 80 or 90 per cent. As reported in the news.
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