You waited two years for an answer.Now you have fifteen days.
A refused refugee claim starts a 15-day clock the moment you receive the written reasons. A detention review happens within 48 hours. Most people lose days deciding what the letter means. Find your deadline first. Decide second.
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Angad Sachdeva, RCIC-IRBLicence R518464 · College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants Authorised at all four IRB divisionsdays to file the appeal
hours to the detention review
days to perfect it
months of waiting before that
Step one, before anything else
Choose your problem. We will show you the answer.
Eight situations cover almost everyone who lands on this page. Pick yours and you get the deadline, what it actually means, and what we would do about it.
What has happened?
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What this is
The Refugee Protection Division has rejected your claim and issued written reasons. If you have a right of appeal, the Refugee Appeal Division is the next step.
A clock is running
15 days from the day the written reasons reached you to file a Notice of Appeal. Not from your hearing, and not from the date printed on the decision.
What we would do
We confirm the date free, read the decision for errors, and tell you honestly whether an appeal is arguable. If it is, we build the appellant's record, which is where appeals are actually won. In 2025, 3,045 of 9,910 appeals decided on the merits were allowed.
Find your date before you decide anything.
Most people lose a week working out what the letter means. The clock is already running. Start with the date, then decide.
All the toolsWhat is my deadline?
General timelines only, not legal advice on your file. Your own deadline can differ.
Enter the date you received it and we will count the days.
Counted from the day you received the written reasons. Source: Immigration and Refugee Board, Filing a refugee appeal.
Tools nobody else in this niche has
Built for deadline-driven matters rather than economic immigration, because that is where the real trouble is.
What happened to you?
People do not search for an immigration consultant. They search for the words printed on the letter. Find yours.
Your refugee claim was refused
If you have a right to appeal, the Refugee Appeal Division is the next step. The clock runs from the day you received the written reasons, not the day of your hearing.
15 days to file the Notice of Appeal
Your appeal is filed but not perfected
An appeal is largely a paper case. The record is where it is won or lost, and a late or thin record is the most common avoidable failure.
30 days under the Rules, confirm the practice notice
You were told you may be ineligible
Bill C-12 took effect on 26 March 2026 and reaches back to 24 June 2020. A short visit years ago can affect a claim made now. Around 30,000 people were written to.
Check your letter and send it the same day
You were offered a pre-removal risk assessment
A PRRA is decided on paper by an officer, not at a hearing. What you write is the entire case, and the timelines attached to it are short.
Short. The timeline is set out in your notification
Someone was stopped at the airport
The detained person usually has no phone. If you are the relative making this search, you are the one who can act. The first review comes fast.
48 hours to the first detention review
Your spouse or family member was refused
A sponsor is the appellant at the Immigration Appeal Division. Sponsorship appeals rose from 2,495 filings in 2024 to 3,360 in 2025, the fastest growing category in the system.
Deadlines apply from the date of the decision
You were told to report for removal
Removals reached 23,160 in 2025 and 14,897 in the first eight months of 2026. Options narrow quickly once a removal date is set.
Act immediately, do not wait for the date
You have a refugee hearing coming up
259,085 claims were pending in August 2026 and a claim took about 24 months from referral to decision. The wait is long, and then the hearing is everything.
Honest answers to the six things that go wrong
Every one of these is a version of the same problem. The system is slow for two years, then brutal for two weeks.
01You did not know the clock had started
The 15-day appeal deadline runs from the day the written reasons reach you, not the hearing date and not the date printed at the top. People routinely lose a week assuming otherwise.
Send a photo of the letter and we tell you your date. No charge, no commitment, no sales call. If the date has passed we tell you that too, because you still need to know.
02You cannot tell who is legitimate
Unlicensed agents are widespread in this market, and most people arriving here have already been burned once or know someone who was.
We tell you to verify us rather than trust us. Since 15 July 2026 the public register shows whether a licensee is in good standing and any disciplinary history, and a compensation fund now exists for clients defrauded by a licensee. Use a licensed consultant and that protection exists. Use a ghost agent and nothing does.
03Legal aid will not pay for a consultant
Legal Aid Ontario certificates can only be billed by roster lawyers. Appeals need a merit assessment first. Many people are refused, are over the threshold, or cannot wait for an intake inside a 15-day window.
We price discrete pieces of work rather than only full files. A deadline check, a decision review, a record prepared, submissions written. You can buy one small piece, see whether we are real, and decide from there.
04The person searching is not the person in trouble
A detained person has no phone. A claimant may not read English. A sponsor is the legal appellant but the refusal landed on someone else's file.
You can start a file on behalf of a relative. Our intake is built for the third party, because in detention and sponsorship matters that is almost always who is calling.
05You cannot read your own decision
A refusal, a fairness letter or a direction to report is dense legal English, read under stress, on a phone, often in a second language.
A written decision review in plain language. What the document is, what the deadline is, and what the realistic options are. Available in English and French.
06You think an appeal means telling the story again
Most people expect a second hearing. An appeal to the Refugee Appeal Division is largely decided on paper, and the record decides it.
We work where the case is actually won: finding the error in the decision and building the record properly. In 2025, 3,045 of 9,910 appeals decided on the merits were allowed.
Slow for two years, then brutal for two weeks.
How long you are likely to wait
The Board's own published figures. Your file can differ.
Set by statute, not by workload. This is the one timeline that does not drift.
259,085 refugee claims were pending in August 2026. The Board has said wait times will continue to grow because intake exceeds its funded capacity.
Three minutes that protect you from everyone, including us
Anyone can put letters after a name on a website. The College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants keeps a public register, and since 15 July 2026 it shows good standing and disciplinary history. Check us on it before you send a document or pay anything.
Open the public register- 01
Open the College public register. It is the only authoritative list of licensed consultants in Canada.
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Search Angad Sachdeva. Confirm the licence class reads RCIC-IRB, which is the class permitted to represent clients before the Immigration and Refugee Board.
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Check the status is in good standing and read any disciplinary history shown.
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Do the same for anyone else you are considering. If a person is not on that register, they cannot lawfully represent you for a fee.
A licensed consultant, and a clear limit on what that licence allows
Angad Sachdeva holds an RCIC-IRB licence, the class authorised to represent clients before the Immigration and Refugee Board: refugee claims, refugee appeals, detention reviews, admissibility hearings and immigration appeals.
There is one thing that licence does not allow, and you should hear it from us rather than find out later.
No consultant and no paralegal can represent you in a judicial review at the Federal Court. Only a lawyer can. If your matter needs that, we will say so and refer you.
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