Immigrants who file an asylum claim today won’t receive a decision from the Immigration and Refugee Board for nearly four years, the board’s chair says.
Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) chair Manon Brassard told the House of Commons immigration committee on Nov. 6 that “two years of historically high level intake” led to a backlog of asylum claims. She said the backlog has increased by more than five times since 2022, rising from 54,000 claims to 290,000 claims, and will take nearly four years to process.
“Given our ability to finalize about 80,000 a year, it would be about 44 months,” Brassard told MPs on the committee, which was first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter….