Canadian Embassy in Cairo denies changes in refugee policy for Egypt

The Canadian Embassy in Cairo issued a statement yesterday denying changes to Canada’s policy on refugee protection claims from Egypt and other countries, saying the information is “fake and inaccurate.” The embassy’s statement comes after a policy announcement on what appears to as to be the legitimate site of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) said claims for refugee protection from Canada filed in Egypt and other countries are eligible for expedited processing. We’ll poke into this further today, as the TLD for the website in question (.gc.ca) comes back as entirely legitimate on first glance when you run a Whois. We’re presuming the issue is that someone, somewhere has mistaken the IRB’s statement as meaning that an Egyptian can apply for refugee status from Egypt, which by definition isn’t the case.