Applications to Cease or Vacate Refugee Protection

Understanding Cessation and Vacation Tables

Applications: In the time period indicated, total applications made to the RPD by the Minister to cease or vacate the refugee protection that has been conferred on a person.
Finalized Cessation Applications:
- Allowed: The RPD has determined that refugee protection has ceased. The claim of the person is deemed rejected and the person loses protected person status. Circumstances for cessation of refugee protection are listed in subsection 108(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA).
- Dismissed: The RPD has dismissed the Minister's application to cease refugee protection, and the person who is the subject of the application retains protected person status.
- Abandoned: The RPD has declared the Minister's application to cease refugee protection abandoned. The person who is the subject of the application retains protected person status.
- Withdrawn: Applications in which the Minister does not continue with the application to cease refugee protection by withdrawing it. The person who is the subject of the application retains protected person status.
- Other: Cases in which the proceeding is terminated for other reasons, such as when the person has passed away.
- Total: Total of all cessation applications allowed, dismissed, abandoned, or withdrawn/other. Applications finalized in the time period indicated may have been made in a previous time period.
Finalized Vacation Applications:
- Allowed: The RPD has vacated a decision to allow a claim for refugee protection by determining that the original decision was obtained as a result of directly or indirectly misrepresenting or withholding material facts relating to a relevant matter. The claim of the person is deemed rejected and the person loses protected person status.
- Dismissed: The RPD has dismissed the Minister's application to vacate a decision to allow a claim for refugee protection because the original decision was not obtained as a result of directly or indirectly misrepresenting or withholding material facts or because there was other sufficient evidence considered when the refugee protection decision was made that justifies refugee protection. The person who is the subject of the application retains protected person status.
- Abandoned: The RPD has declared the Minister's application to vacate a refugee protection decision abandoned. The person who is the subject of the application retains protected person status.
- Withdrawn: Applications in which the Minister does not continue with the application to vacate refugee protection by withdrawing it. The person who is the subject of the application retains protected person status.
- Other: Cases in which the proceeding is terminated for other reasons, such as when the person has passed away.
- Total: Total of all vacation applications allowed, dismissed, abandoned, withdrawn, and other. Applications finalized in the time period indicated may have been made to the RPD in a previous time period.
Pending: All applications made to the RPD by the Minister to cease or vacate the refugee protection that has been conferred on a person that have not been finalized as of the end of the time period indicated.

Please note that applications finalized in a given time period may have been made in a previous time period.

Due to privacy considerations, some values in these tables have been suppressed and replaced with the notation "--". As a result, components may not be a sum of the total indicated. In general, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada suppresses values less than 20.
See protecting privacy when releasing statistical information: small value suppression to learn more about how the Board approaches small value suppression.

Cessation applications (s. 108(2) of the IRPA)
Cessation applications	Received	Finalized					Pending
Cessation applications	Received	Allowed	Dismissed	Abandoned	Withdrawn & Other	Total	Pending
2024 (January to September)	218	167	26	--	--	153	341
2023	307	284	35	--	--	355	331
2022	202	461	50	--	--	549	385
2021	392	369	21	--	--	419	729
2020	376	221	--	--	--	232	755
2019	433	166	--	--	--	189	611
2018	129	116	--	--	30	163	367
2017	146	--	--	--	21	37	401
2016	88	--	--	--	20	40	292
2015	179	49	--	--	--	70	244
2014	157	117	--	--	22	156	135
2013	137	40	--	--	--	46	134

Vacation applications (s. 109(1) of the IRPA)
Vacation applications	Received	Finalized					Pending
Vacation applications	Received	Allowed	Dismissed	Abandoned	Withdrawn & Other	Total	Pending
2024 (January to September)	132	123	--	--	--	121	230
2023	190	212	--	--	--	235	256
2022	203	299	--	--	28	344	288
2021	230	243	--	--	47	301	428
2020	245	51	--	--	--	63	499
2019	196	278	--	--	--	294	317
2018	164	369	--	--	--	387	415
2017	235	70	--	--	--	73	638
2016	213	20	--	--	--	26	476
2015	140	60	--	--	--	69	282
2014	239	135	--	--	--	154	211
2013	128	95	--	--	--	122	126

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