Tourist vis refugee claim

I am seeing this more and more, especially after tightening refugee laws coming to effect whereby people making refugee claim after being in Canada more than a year are rejected. Now they bring their family members (parents of “international student” for example) and they claim refugee upon arrival.
This opens door for them to also stay because they get incorporated into the family’s file.
This gives all of them free healthcare, full job access and free money in all sorts of subsidies.

I think tourist visa refugee claims should be outright rejected unless the person is a well known figure who suffered oppression, or they told the Canadian embassy beforehand about their oppression and plan to claim asylum.

I’m sick of these old people coming to basically spend their retirement on our people’s back while also having lived a comfortable life back home, probably oppressing others. This game needs to stop.

Posted May 24, 2026, 2:56 AM UTC

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