No fewer than 13,171 Nigerians who applied for refugee protection from January 2013 to December 2024 were turned down by Canadian government
This includes 811 Nigerians rejected in 2024.
Official data from the Refugee Protection Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada placed Nigeria among the top five countries with the most rejected claims. It ranked 5th.
Others are Mexico with 2,954 rejections, India (1,688), Haiti (982) and Colombia (723).
The IMRB grants refugee protection in Canada if the RPD satisfactorily confirms that an applicant or claimant meets the United Nations definition of a Convention refugee, “which has been incorporated into Canadian law, or that the applicant is a person in need of protection.”
The 1951 UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees defines refugees as persons who have a substantiated fear of persecution because of their race, nationality, religion, political ideology or membership in a particular social group.
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