{"id":72178,"date":"2019-09-11T20:16:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T20:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrationca.staging.wpengine.com\/canada-says-no-special-immigration-measures-in-place-for-victims-of-hurricane-dorian"},"modified":"2019-09-11T20:17:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T20:17:39","slug":"canada-says-no-special-immigration-measures-in-place-for-victims-of-hurricane-dorian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/canada-says-no-special-immigration-measures-in-place-for-victims-of-hurricane-dorian\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Says No Special Immigration Measures In Place For Victims Of Hurricane Dorian"},"content":{"rendered":"

2019-09-11 – Canada\u2019s immigration<\/a> department has issued a clarification statement concerning how the federal government is responding in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.<\/p>\n

Dorian ripped through the Bahamas in early September, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake impacting the lives of thousands of people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) says no special immigration measures have been put in place to help those affected.<\/p>\n

Specifically, the IRCC statement said: \u201cAsylum claims cannot be made at a Canadian embassy, high commission, consulate, consulate general, or honorary consulate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement also said: \u201cCanadians remain gravely concerned by Hurricane Dorian and we express our condolences to all those affected by the devastation it caused.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The absence of specific immigration measures does not mean those affected by Dorian cannot claim refugee status in Canada.<\/p>\n

Canada has specific requirements for claiming refugee status, as defined by the Immigration Refugee Protection Act.<\/p>\n

Refugees are accepted in one of two groups:<\/p>\n

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  1. Convention refugee.<\/li>\n
  2. Person in need of protection.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A convention refugee<\/b> is a person who, owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of:<\/p>\n

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    • race,<\/li>\n
    • religion,\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    • nationality,<\/li>\n
    • membership of a particular social group, or<\/li>\n
    • political opinion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      is outside the country of his nationality and is unable to or, owing to such fear, unwilling to avail of the protection of that country.<\/p>\n

      A person in need of protection<\/b> is a person in Canada whose removal to their country of nationality or former habitual residence would subject them to the possibility of:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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      • Torture,<\/li>\n
      • risk of life, or\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      • risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Canada plans to welcome 46,450 refugees and protected persons in 2019, according to its immigration levels plan.<\/p>\n

        The number is set to rise to 49,700 in 2020, and to 51,700 in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        2019-09-11 – Canada\u2019s immigration department has issued a clarification statement concerning how the federal government is responding in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian. Dorian ripped through the Bahamas in early September, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake impacting the lives of thousands of people.\u00a0 Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) says no special…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":72173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lactualite-canadienne","category-4859","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}