Refugee Status: Asylum Cases and Mario Bellissimo

refugee status: On the whole, Americans represented less than three per cent of the 5,939 people who claimed refugee status upon arriving at Canada land borders, in the first 11 months of 2016, according to Globe and Mail. Yet the claims from 170 U.S. citizens was more than twice the 73 who did over the same period in 2015. Therefore the CBSA will not discuss specifics of asylum cases. Mario Bellissimo, a Toronto immigration lawyer, said he not surprised. I don t think it surprising at all, she said. Such bumps are often driven by political changes, said Bellissmo Saw some of this when Bush assumed office in 2000 . In an interview, University of Ottawa professor and lawyer Jamie Liew said she concurs. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.