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On August 14, 2024, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Canadian authorities enacted two policy changes regarding the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) between Canada and the United States.[1] The STCA has been in effect since 2002 and allows Canada and the U.S. to share responsibility for processing refugee applications.[2] The updated Agreement makes two major changes: decreasing the time migrants are allowed with their lawyers to a minimum of four hours and requiring migrants to have their official documents ready for screening to see if they are subject to the 2002 STCA.[3] In the original STCA from 2002, migrants were given a minimum of 24 hours with their attorneys, and migrants were able to postpone screenings by border agents to gather documents that would prove that they merited an exemption.[4]