Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

Marginal note:Documents — permanent residents

• 50 (1) In addition to the permanent resident visa required of a foreign national who is a member of a class referred to in subsection 70(2), a foreign national seeking to become a permanent resident must hold

  • (a) a passport, other than a diplomatic, official or similar passport, that was issued by the country of which the foreign national is a citizen or national;

  • (b) a travel document that was issued by the country of which the foreign national is a citizen or national;

  • (c) an identity or travel document that was issued by a country to non-national residents, refugees or stateless persons who are unable to obtain a passport or other travel document from their country of citizenship or nationality or who have no country of citizenship or nationality;

  • (d) a travel document that was issued by the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland, to enable and facilitate emigration;

  • (e) a passport or travel document that was issued by the Palestinian Authority;

  • (f) an exit visa that was issued by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to its citizens who were compelled to relinquish their Soviet nationality in order to emigrate from that country;

  • (g) a British National (Overseas) passport that was issued by the Government of the United Kingdom to persons born, naturalized or registered in Hong Kong; or

  • (h) a passport that was issued by the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.

• Marginal note:Exception — protected persons

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who is a protected person within the meaning of subsection 95(2) of the Act and holds a permanent resident visa when it is not possible for the person to obtain a passport or an identity or travel document referred to in subsection (1).

• Marginal note:Unacceptable documents

  (3) The following documents are not considered passports or identity or travel documents for the purposes of this section:

  • (a) any passport or identity or travel document purporting to have been issued by Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei or Venda;

  • (b) any passport or identity or travel document purporting to have been issued by the All Palestine Government;

  • (c) any passport that was issued by the Government of the United Kingdom and is entitled "British Visitor's Passport"; and

  • (d) any passport purporting to have been issued by Somalia.