Safe Third Country Agreement

Under the terms of the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA), promulgated in 2004, refugees in Canada and the United States were limited to seeking asylum in the country of their arrival, thus barring asylum-seeking immigrants to the United States from entering Canada at regular ports of entry on the U.S.-Canadian…

…official crossings, thus circumventing the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA), which barred asylum-seeking immigrants to the United States from entering Canada at regular ports of entry on the border. As the influx of migrants continued in 2018, the Canadian government’s ability to process their requests for asylum and provide for…