Asylum Claimants – Monthly IRCC Updates

Temporary residents in the humanitarian population who request refugee protection upon or after arrival in Canada.

This data should not be used as an indication of the number of asylum claimants residing in a province or territory. The table pulls data on number of asylum claimants who have submit a valid claim by year and province of claim. The data set may include individuals who have claimed asylum and since obtained a referral to the IRB, individuals who have been determined to be protected persons by IRPA, as well as those who may have since become a permanent resident may still be included in the claimant count in the year in which their asylum claim was made.

Please note that in these datasets, the figures have been suppressed or rounded to prevent the identification of individuals when the datasets are compiled and compared with other publicly available statistics. Values between 0 and 5 are shown as “--“ and all other values are rounded to the nearest multiple of 5. This may result to the sum of the figures not equating to the totals indicated.

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Additional Info

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Last Updated April 17, 2026, 20:43 (UTC)
Created April 17, 2026, 20:43 (UTC)
contact_email IRCC.Open-Ouvert.IRCC@cic.gc.ca
contact_person {}
criticality_level ["general_public", "immigrants", "noncanadians"]
data_dictionary []
geographic_scope []
open_canada_collection primary
open_canada_date_modified 2026-03-17 00:00:00
open_canada_date_published 2017-02-28 00:00:00
open_canada_keywords {"en": ["IRCC", "CIC", "immigration", "Immigration", "Citizenship and Immigration Canada", "Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada", "Refugee Claimaints", "refugee claimants", "claim year", "asylum", "asylum claimant"], "fr": ["IRCC", "CIC", "immigration", "Immigration", "Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada", "Immigration Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada", "demandeurs d’asile", "l’année à laquelle la demande a été reçue", "asile"]}
open_canada_subject ["persons", "society_and_culture"]
sensitivity_level unrestricted
title_fr Demandeurs d’asile - Mises à jour mensuelles d’IRCC
update_frequency P1M