Only 5% of asylum applications have been processed by IRB

Asylum seekers who arrived in Canada via unauthorized crossings this summer will have to exercise patience in waiting for their claims to be processed. 
The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada has processed only five per cent of the nearly 11,000 applications that it has received since mid-March. 
According to new data published by the IRB, a mere 592 asylum applications have been processed. 
So far, 408 of those applications (69 per cent) were accepted. 
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