If there is a desire to streamline or to accelerate things, we think that access to an appeal is perhaps one of the worst ways. The refugee appeal division would be designed to correct errors, so it seems to make no sense to cut out a step that is there to correct errors and to establish clear jurisprudence.
Using Mexico as an example, Peter Showler, former chair of the IRB, has pointed out that many people are in danger in Mexico. Perhaps some are not. It's those types of decisions, which are often based on credibility, that need the benefit of the study by the appeal board, and the appeal could set down clear jurisprudence that would then make it much easier for the first level to decide cases.