Key praised these leaked documents as supporting his refugee claim.

Benetta is currently living in Toronto while awaiting determination of his refugee claim.

But officials say it can take up to 12 months to get a hearing on one's refugee claim.

North Korean refugee claims may be true, but they need to be treated with caution.

He filed a refugee claim upon his arrival in Canada, in January 2004.

The refugee claim was denied in 2009 and denied again by Canada's federal courts in 2010.

Instead, new processing centers were opened in the Caribbean to evaluate refugee claims, about a third of which were found to have merit.

In all of 2002, officials said, only 36 Pakistanis made refugee claims.

The government has instituted a complicated procedure for determining if a refugee claim is legitimate.

The government is planning on introducing more restrictive immigration laws to reduce the number of false refugee claims.