Section 12 — Immigration and Refugee Protection Act: Family reunification

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. 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. 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.