Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Year: 2023
Month: November
Request Number: 1A-2023-95657
Request Summary: 1. Statistics between January 2010 and 2023-10-15 on: (a) How many people, who carried a North Korean passport, were admitted to Canada (b) How many North Koreans and South Koreans sought refugee protection under s. 96 and s. 97 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (c) How many North Koreans applied for visas and temporary resident permits, and the approval and denial rates of these applications and could you categorize the denials by reason for the denial (d) How many North Koreans made applications for permanent residence on humanitarian and compassionate grounds (e) How many North Koreans were removed from Canada, and to which country they were removed to (f) How many North Koreans entered Canada through an economic class application and as international students (g) How many travellers from North Korea identified themselves as stateless 2. Statistics between January 2010 and present on stateless persons, whose country of origin or apparent information indicated they were from North Korea and South Korea, and applied under s. 5(4) of the Citizenship Act
Disposition: All disclosed
Number of pages: 5894