Iranians seeking asylum in Canada by converting to Christianity

In 2025, there were just over 7,100 asylum claims in Canada from Iranian nationals, the third largest number of claims by country of alleged persecution after India and Haiti. Approximately half — 3,456 — were accepted, according to figures from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, while 11,448 Iranian asylum claims are still pending. It is unknown how many of those were claims related to religious conversion.