Immigration System: Hearing and Critics Fear

immigration system: That list is meant to streamline the process to prevent backlog in the immigration system which critics fear increased illegal crossings will lead to by putting claimants from certain countries DCO through the system without a hearing, according to Metro News. But it's not cut and dry, as Clarke explained the hearing Monday involved evidence from both his client and the tribunal, witnesses, and issues identified in the hearing were critical to what he felt was a fulsome and fair process. I know there were a number of campaign promises about an overhaul but until the government puts together a more clear plan, I won't take too many things literally, said Alastair Clarke, who will speak on the subject of asylum claimants to his colleagues of the bar at Canada's Immigration Law Conference next month CILC . On Monday, Clarke said he helped someone from Mauritania successfully claim refugee status, partly because the west Africa country is not on Canada's Designated Country of Origin DCO list. The DCO system splits refugee claimants into two tiers, he said. The Canadian Press reported Monday that some refugee advocates also feel the two-tier approach introduces unworkable timelines for hearing cases and their appeals. If the claimant is from a DCO, they do not have the same rights to have their claim heard as individuals from other countries; their opportunity for presenting oral evidence to a tribunal is limited, the procedures for those claimants are restricted. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.