People Need: Claims and Hearing Time

people need: The government has brought in a retired senior bureaucrat, Neil Yeates, to oversee the review in concert with departmental officials, according to CTV. The IRB is struggling with a rising influx of new asylum claims and also shortages of decision-makers and judges to handle the claims already in the system. Ahmed Hussen said the review will examine how claims are currently handled and will look beyond reforms already being implemented by the Immigration and Refugee Board. In recent months, it has moved to fast-track new claims from certain countries and shorten the hearing time for others, as well as redeploy staff to deal with backlogs. People need to know the government is committed to orderly migration, he said. Hussen said the in-Canada asylum system is key to Canada's tradition of offering protection to persecuted people and increasing the productivity at the IRB is important. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.