Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (SOR/2002-227)

Marginal note:Bad faith

• 4 (1) For the purposes of these Regulations, a foreign national shall not be considered a spouse, a common-law partner or a conjugal partner of a person if the marriage, common-law partnership or conjugal partnership

  • (a) was entered into primarily for the purpose of acquiring any status or privilege under the Act; or

  • (b) is not genuine.

• Marginal note:Adopted children

  (2) A foreign national shall not be considered an adopted child of a person if the adoption

  • (a) was entered into primarily for the purpose of acquiring any status or privilege under the Act; or

  • (b) did not create a genuine parent-child relationship.

• Marginal note:Sponsorship of adopted children

  (3) Subsection (2) does not apply to adoptions referred to in paragraph 117(1)(g) and subsections 117(2) and (4).