Nearly 13K international students applied for asylum this year, data shows – National

Nearly 13K international students applied for asylum this year, data shows – National

Nearly 13,000 international students have applied for asylum in Canada in the first eight months of the year, data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada shows. Between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31, a total of 119,835 refugee claims were made in Canada. Of these, 12,915 were claimants who were on either study permits (11,605) or … Read more