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Making a refugee claim
This fact sheet explains who can get refugee protection in Canada, what happens when someone makes a claim, including how to prepare for a hearing with the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB), who is not eligible to have an IRB hearing, and what happens if the IRB accepts or rejects a claim.
Produced in 2010
Produced by CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario/Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario)
Topics Immigration and Refugee Law - Refugees
Format Booklet/fact sheet/brochure; Web site/online resource
Relates to region Canada
Available as
 | http://www.cleo.on.ca/english/pub/onpub/PDF/immigration/refc laim.pdf English , Adobe PDF (488 kB) 16 pages, February 2010. |
| http://www.cleo.on.ca/francais/pubf/onpubf/PDFf/immigration/ refclmfr.pdf French/français , Adobe PDF (179 KB) 13 pages, August 2007. |
For more information contact
CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario/Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario)
Phone 416-408-4420
Fax 416-408-4424
E-mail cleo@cleo.on.ca
Web site http://www.cleo.on.ca
