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PART 2: Refugee ProtectionDIVISION 2: Convention Refugees and Persons in Need of Protection
§108

Rejection

Rejection

Refugee Protection
🍁 In Simple Terms

Your refugee protection can be taken away if you voluntarily returned to the country you were fleeing, got your original nationality back, obtained a new nationality with protection, or resettled there. You can also lose protection if the conditions that made you a refugee no longer exist, unless you can show you still have a compelling reason to fear return based on past persecution.

Affects: Refugee claimants and protected persons
Legal Text — IRPA Section 108

(1)A claim for refugee protection shall be rejected, and a person is not a Convention refugee or a person in need of protection, in any of the following circumstances:(a) the person has voluntarily reavailed themself of the protection of their country of nationality;

(b)the person has voluntarily reacquired their nationality;

(c)the person has acquired a new nationality and enjoys the protection of the country of that new nationality;

(d)the person has voluntarily become re-established in the country that the person left or remained outside of and in respect of which the person claimed refugee protection in Canada; or

(e)the reasons for which the person sought refugee protection have ceased to exist.

In Practice
Official Source: Justice Canada — IRPA s. 108 (authoritative, may differ from this display)
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