Priscilla Ki Sun Hwang

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50-year immigration wait stuns lawyers and families, but IRCC says it's no mistake

50-year immigration wait stuns lawyers and families, but IRCC says it's no mistake

Processing times for Canadian immigration applications have reached unprecedented lengths — up to 50 years under some permanent residency programs — stunning applicants and lawyers who say the system has become unviable. "We were shocked," said Olha Kushko, whose family fled Kyiv and settled in Ottawa in 2023 under the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET), a special measure introduced...

Federal agencies fumble privacy safeguards on asylum system revamp, risking refugee data

Federal agencies fumble privacy safeguards on asylum system revamp, risking refugee data

Lack of privacy checks in $68M project raises ‘red flags,’ say lawyers. Three government agencies that partnered on a $68-million project to revamp Canada's asylum system failed to complete mandatory privacy safeguard tests for years while the project was being implemented, CBC News has learned. The lack of privacy protections raises "red flags," lawyers say, and may have put refugee...