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Canadian Immigration Department Creates New Rules To Fight Refugee Fraud

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Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) last week released a list of 27 countries whose nationals will have their asylum claims expedited. The new rules were created to fight a growing problem of bogus asylum claims by nationals of European member-state countries, particularly Hungary. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has reported thousands of Hungarian Roma arriving in Canada in recent […]

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CBC Obtains Federal Police Report on Hungarian Refugee Claimants

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The largest news broadcaster in Canada, CBC News, has obtained a draft of a Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) report on Hungarian refugee claimants, a group which has grown significantly since Canada lifted visa requirements for Hungarian nationals in 2008. The report describes the findings of Project SARA, a CBSA intelligence study of Hungarian refugee claimants, which include high levels of […]

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