Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board has granted asylum to at least 1,467 Nigerians seeking refugee protection from January 2023 to March 2024.
This brings the total number of accepted asylum claims filed by Nigerians to 11,370 from 2012 to Q1 2024.
The Refugee Protection Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada grants refugee protection in Canada if the Division confirms that an applicant meets the United Nations definition of a Convention refugee or is a person in need of protection.
The 1951 UN Convention on the Status of Refugees defines refugees as persons with a substantiated fear of persecution due to their race, nationality, religion, political ideology, or membership in a particular social group.
However, from January 2023 to March 2024, the IRB rejected 589 applications from persons with Nigerian passports, bringing the total number of rejections since January 2013 to over 12,600.
Imaobong Ladipo-Sanusi, Executive Director of the Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation, described the acceptance rate as fair, saying irregular migration was often the leading cause of rejection.
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