How does a refugee protection claim get referred to the IRB?
• An officer at a port of entry (Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)) or at a Canada Immigration Centre (Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC)) decides whether the claim is eligible to be heard by the Refugee Protection Division (RPD) of the IRB. • A refugee protection claim is not eligible to be heard by the RPD if the person: • has been already recognized as a Convention refugee or as a person in need of protection; • has been recognized as a Convention refugee by another country and can be sent or returned to that country; • arrived in Canada, directly or indirectly, from a country designated as safe by the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulationswhere he or she could have claimed refugee protection; • is inadmissible to Canada on grounds of security, human or international rights violations, serious criminality or organized criminality; or if the person • has already made a refugee protection claim that was: • determined to be not eligible; • rejected or determined to be
A Canada Border Services Agency officer at a port of entry, or a Citizenship and Immigration Canada officer at a Canada Immigration Centre, decides whether the claim is eligible to be heard by the Refugee Protection Division (RPD) of the IRB. A refugee protection claim is not eligible to be heard by the RPD if the person. • has been already recognized as a Convention refugee or as a person in need of protection; • has been recognized as a Convention refugee by another country and can be sent or returned to that country; • arrived in Canada, directly or indirectly, from a country designated as safe by the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations where he or she could have claimed refugee protection; • is inadmissible to Canada on grounds of security, human or international rights violations, serious criminality or organized criminality; or if the person • has already made a refugee protection claim that was: • determined to be not eligible; • rejected or determined to be abandoned
