Citizenship and Immigration committee  The average current processing time is approximately 20 months for claimants to be seen by the board. In terms of the acceptance rate for Nigerians, it's at around 40%—32% for the border crossers.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The IRB doesn't comment on statements made in public. All our decision-makers are independent and make their decisions based on the merits of individual cases.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm Thomas Vulpe. I'm the acting deputy chair for the refugee protection division. The positions that are being hired for presently to fulfill the budget funding envelope are term positions only.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The IRB is in discussions with the department on our long-term funding requirements, given the levels of intake and referral of claims to the board. These are ongoing discussions at the present time. As I say, we're hiring for two-year terms based on the funding envelope that we

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Whether we think they're full-time or not is mostly a question of proper stewardship in terms of only hiring term persons with temporary funding. At the present time, we're hiring with temporary funding and filling the term positions.