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Refugees: Percent and Refugee Claimants

refugees: Only 10 percent of government-assisted refugees ended up living in Vancouver from 2010 to 2013, compared to 28 percent in Surrey, 22 percent in Coquitlam, and 16 percent in Burnaby 21.8 percent including New Westminster numbers . Vancouver is the number one destination for refugee claimants, but this data likely reflects the fact that many refugee claimants live in temporary accommodation in shelter or with relatives until they receive a decision on their claim, the report states, according to Georgia Asian. Iran supplies the most government-assisted refugees The top five source countries of government-assisted refugees to B.C. over that period were Iran 24 percent Iraq 18 percent Somalia 12 percent Afghanistan 10 percent and Bhutan eight percent . This is just one of many intriguing facts in a new 40-page report by the Immigrant Services Society of B.C. called Refugee Newcomers in Vancouver Changing Faces and Neighbourhoods 2000-2013. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.