Q-1002 , 45th Parliament, 1st session May 26, 2025, to present

With regard to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada’s “File Review” or other paper-based decision-making processes used to determine refugee protection claims, since January 1, 2017, broken down by calendar year and, where applicable, by claimant country, claim type, and decision stream: (a) what countries, claim types, or country-and-claim-type combinations were, at any time, identified as eligible, presumptively eligible, or generally suitable for File Review, and, for each, on what dates were they added, amended, suspended, removed, or otherwise reclassified; (b) what quantitative and qualitative criteria were used to determine whether a claim was suitable for File Review, including any thresholds relating to historical acceptance rates, documentary identity requirements, front-end security screening completion, ministerial intervention, complexity, credibility, or country condition evidence; (c) how many claims were (i) screened for possible File Review, (ii) triaged into File Review, (iii) accepted without an oral hearing, (iv) returned from File Review to a short hearing, (v) returned from File Review to a full hearing, (vi) rejected, (vii) withdrawn, (viii) abandoned, (ix) still pending after triage; (d) for the claims referred to in (c), what were the average and median processing times from referral to triage, triage to decision, and referral to final disposition, and how did these compare to claims determined through a full oral hearing; (e) in how many cases (i) was the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship or the Minister of Public Safety notified of the intention to proceed by File Review, (ii) was the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship or the Minister of Public Safety given an opportunity to intervene, (iii) did the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship or the Minister of Public Safety intervene, (iv) did the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship or the Minister of Public Safety request that the matter proceed to a hearing, (v) did the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship or the Minister of Public Safety decline to intervene, and what were the outcomes of those cases; (f) in how many cases triaged to File Review was front-end security screening incomplete at the time of initial triage, and what steps, if any, were taken before a final decision was rendered in each such case; and (g) in how many cases triaged to or accepted through File Review were concerns later identified relating to (i) identity, (ii) credibility, (iii) fraud or misrepresentation, (iv) criminality, (v) security inadmissibility, (vi) organized criminality, (vii) war crimes or crimes against humanity, (viii) cessation proceedings, (ix) vacation proceedings, (x) other integrity concerns, and what was the disposition in each category?