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Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (S.C. 2001, c. 27)

Act current to 2024-06-19 and last amended on 2023-12-15. Previous Versions

Marginal note:Family reunification

  •  (1) A foreign national may be selected as a member of the family class on the basis of their relationship as the spouse, common-law partner, child, parent or other prescribed family member of a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.

  • Marginal note:Economic immigration

    (2) A foreign national may be selected as a member of the economic class on the basis of their ability to become economically established in Canada.

  • Marginal note:Refugees

    (3) A foreign national, inside or outside Canada, may be selected as a person who under this Act is a Convention refugee or as a person in similar circumstances, taking into account Canada’s humanitarian tradition with respect to the displaced and the persecuted.


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