By Steve Scherer and Andrea Shalal
OTTAWA (Reuters) -The United States and Canada&nbsp;reached a&nbsp;deal&nbsp;aimed at&nbsp;stopping&nbsp;asylum&nbsp;seekers&nbsp;from entering the shared land border via&nbsp;unofficial&nbsp;crossings, though some details still need to be ironed out when the two sides meet, a Canadian government source and a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday.
The revised Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) will be discussed on Friday at an official face-to-face between U.S. President Joe&nbsp;Biden&nbsp;and Canadian Prime Minister Justin&nbsp;Trudeau&nbsp;in Ottawa, with the announcement likely afterward.
Trudeau&nbsp;has been under pressure to&nbsp;stop&nbsp;the flow of&nbsp;asylum&nbsp;seekers&nbsp;in Quebec, the mainly French-speaking province where he holds his parliamentary seat.
As part of the agreement, Canada will take in a additional 15,000 migrants over the next year on a humanitarian basis from the Western Hemisphere, the U.S. official said.
Biden&nbsp;arrived in Canada on Thursday on his long-delayed visit to express unity on Ukraine, and will address Parliament on Friday with&nbsp;Trudeau. The two leaders and their wives met privately at&nbsp;Trudeau's residence in the evening.
Border&nbsp;crossings&nbsp;between the two countries are governed by STCA, which allows U.S. and Canadian officials to turn back&nbsp;asylum&nbsp;seekers&nbsp;in both directions at formal ports of entry, but does not apply to&nbsp;unofficial&nbsp;crossings&nbsp;like Quebec's Roxham Road.
Roxham Road, a dirt path that has become a route of choice for&nbsp;asylum-seekers, made international headlines in 2017 soon after former U.S. President Donald Trump started to crack down on illegal migrants, resulting in a huge inflow of&nbsp;asylum&nbsp;seekers&nbsp;into Canada.
U.S. and Canada share the longest land border in North America and the new agreement would expand the pact so that it applies to the entire length and&nbsp;asylum&nbsp;seekers&nbsp;apprehended using&nbsp;unofficial&nbsp;crossings&nbsp;will be turned back.
Canada has been pushing the United States to extend the&nbsp;deal&nbsp;for a while. In recent months, there has been a sharp increase in&nbsp;asylum&nbsp;seekers&nbsp;entering Canada through&nbsp;unofficial&nbsp;border&nbsp;crossings.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment.
Trudeau's office did not respond to a request for comment about the&nbsp;deal&nbsp;on the border crossing.
Speaking with reporters on Wednesday,&nbsp;Trudeau&nbsp;said the U.S. and Canadian governments had been working to resolve the "complex" issue of irregular border&nbsp;crossings&nbsp;for many months and that he hoped to make an announcement about it soon.
(Reporting by Steve Schere and Andrea Shalal in Ottawa, additional reporting by Anna Mehler Paperny in Toronto and Ismail Shakil in Ottawa; Editing by Sandra Maler and Diane Craft)

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