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With Canada’s decision to only accept single male Syrian refugees who can prove they are gay, the fates of hundreds of people depend on a screener’s ability to figure out who is for real and who might be pretending to be gay to secure passage to Canada.

“We’ve all heard the stories of where (falsified LGBT refugee claims) have happened, so yes, it can happen,” said Gloria Nafziger, a Toronto-based refugee campaigner for Amnesty International.

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Under Canada’s just-released plan to accept 25,000 refugees “as quickly as possible,” single adult men are disqualified unless they are accompanying their parents or can prove “membership in an LGBTI community.”

At refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, it is now the job of staffers working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to figure out which single men qualify for a life in Canada.

“Refugee board members here in Canada have said that sexual orientation and gender identity-based claims are some of the most challenging that they face,” said Sharalyn Jordan with Rainbow Refugee, a Canadian group that helps lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender refugees.