Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 279 — Assessment of administration fee
Subject to subsection (2), an administration fee must be assessed against a commercial transporter in respect of any of the following foreign nationals it carried or caused to be carried to Canada: a…
Section 280 — Administration fee
Subject to subsection (2), the administration fee assessed under section 279 is $3,200. If a memorandum of understanding in accordance with subsection (3) is in effect between the commercial…
Section 281 — Notice of assessment
The assessment of an administration fee shall be served personally, by registered mail, by facsimile with acknowledgement of receipt or by electronic transmission on a representative of the…
Section 282 — Submissions concerning assessment
The commercial transporter may submit written submissions to the Minister within 30 days after being served with an assessment of an administration fee. If submissions are made, the Minister must…
Section 283 — Security
The Minister may, on the basis of the following factors, require a commercial transporter to provide security for compliance with its obligations under paragraphs 148(1)(a) to (g) of the Act: the…
Section 284 — Application of s. 148(2) of the Act
For the purposes of subsection 148(2) of the Act, a prescribed good is a good that is not land, a building or a transportation facility.
Section 285 — Object detained or seized
If an object is detained or seized under subsection 148(2) of the Act, that object shall remain detained or seized until the transporter complies with its obligations under section 148 of the Act; or…
Section 286 — Notice of seizure
Following a seizure under subsection 148(2) of the Act, an officer shall make reasonable efforts to identify the lawful owner of the object seized; and give notice of the seizure to that person. A…
Section 287 — Sale of a seized object
If a transporter does not comply with paragraph 286(2)(a) within a reasonable time, an officer shall give notice to the transporter that the object will be sold. The object shall then be sold for the…
Section 288 — Definition of beneficiary
In this Part, beneficiary , in respect of a person, means the person’s spouse, common-law partner or conjugal partner; a dependent child of the person or of the person’s spouse, common-law partner or…
Section 289 — Types of loans
The Minister may make loans to the following persons for the following purposes: to a foreign national referred to in Part 1 of the Act for the purpose of defraying the cost to the foreign national…
Section 290 — Maximum amount
The maximum amount of advances that may be made under subsection 88(1) of the Act is $400 million. The total amount of all loans made under this Part plus accrued interest on those loans shall not at…
Section 291 — Repayment
Subject to section 292, a loan made under section 289 becomes payable in the case of a loan for the purpose of defraying transportation costs, one year after the day on which the person for whose…
Section 292 — Deferred repayment
If repaying a loan, in accordance with the requirements of section 291, that was made to a person under section 289 would, by reason of the person’s income, assets and liabilities, cause the person…
Section 293 — No interest on loan
A loan made under this Part bears no interest as of the day on which this section comes into force. The interest on any loan that has not been repaid before that day continues to accrue until the day…
Section 294 — Interpretation
In this Part, a fee payable under this Part is payable not per application but for each person in respect of whom an application is made; subject to subsections 295(3), 301(2), 304(2) and 314(3), a…
Section 294.1 — Fee — $7
A fee of $7 is payable for processing an application for an electronic travel authorization. A person whose application for a work permit or study permit or for renewal of a work permit or study…
Section 295 — Permanent resident visa
The following fees are payable for processing an application for a permanent resident visa: if the application is made by a person as a member of the family class in respect of a principal applicant,…
Section 296 — Single or multiple entry — $100
A fee of $100 is payable for processing an application for a temporary resident visa to enter Canada one or more times. The following persons are not required to pay the fee referred to in subsection…
Section 297
[Repealed, SOR/2014-19, s. 3]
Section 298 — Fee — $200
A fee of $200 is payable for processing an application for a temporary resident permit. The following persons are not required to pay the fee referred to in subsection (1): a person referred to in…
Section 299 — Fee — $155
A fee of $155 is payable for processing an application for a work permit. The following persons are not required to pay the fee referred to in subsection (1): a person in Canada who has made a…
Section 300 — Fee — $150
A fee of $150 is payable for processing an application for a study permit. The following persons are not required to pay the fee referred to in subsection (1): a person in Canada who has made a…
Section 301 — Fee
The following fees are payable for processing an application to remain in Canada as a permanent resident: if the application is made by a person as a member of the spouse or common-law partner in…
Section 302 — Fee — $325
A fee of $325 is payable for processing an application by a person as a member of the permit holder class to remain in Canada as a permanent resident.
Section 303 — Fee — $500
A fee of $500 is payable by a person for the acquisition of permanent resident status. The fee set out in subsection (1) shall be indexed at 09:00:00 a.m. Eastern daylight time on April 30, 2022, and…
Section 303.1 — Fee — $230
A fee of $230 is payable by an employer who has made an offer of employment to a foreign national in respect of work described in section 204 or 205; a foreign national described in section 207; or a…
Section 303.2 — Fee — $100
A fee of $100 is payable by a person for the rights and privileges conferred by means of a work permit if that person is a foreign national who intends to perform work described in section 204 or 205…
Section 304 — Fee — $75
A fee of $75 is payable for processing a sponsorship application under Part 7. The fee referred to in subsection (1) is payable at the time the application is filed.
Section 305 — Fee — $100
A fee of $100 is payable for processing an application under subsection 181(1). The following persons are not required to pay the fee referred to in subsection (1): a person who makes an application…
Section 306 — Fee — $200
A fee of $200 is payable for processing an application under section 182. A person who holds an unexpired temporary resident permit is not required to pay the fee referred to in subsection (1).
Section 307 — Fees
The following fees are payable for processing an application made in accordance with section 66 or for examining the circumstances under subsection 25.2(1) of the Act of a foreign national who…
Section 308 — Fee — $50
A fee of $50 is payable for processing an application made under paragraph 53(1)(b) for a permanent resident card. A fee of $50 is payable for processing an application for the renewal of a permanent…
Section 309 — Fees
The following fees are payable for processing an application for a determination of rehabilitation under paragraph 36(3)(c) of the Act: in the case of a foreign national inadmissible on grounds of…
Section 310 — Fee — $400
A fee of $400 is payable for processing an application for authorization to return to Canada under subsection 52(1) of the Act.
Section 311 — Certification — $30
A fee of $30 is payable for processing an application for the certification of an immigration document, other than a permanent resident card, confirming the date on which a person became a permanent…
Section 312 — Fee — $100
The following fees are payable for an examination for the purpose of entering Canada that is made outside the applicable service hours of the port of entry where the officer who conducts the…
Section 313 — Fee — $30
A fee of $30 is payable for processing an application to enroll in a program for an alternative means of examination that is administered solely by the Minister. The fee is payable in respect of each…
Section 314 — Fee for statistical data
The following fees are payable for processing an application for immigration statistical data that have not been published by the Department: $100 for the first 10 minutes or less of access to the…
Section 315 — Travel document
A fee of $50 is payable for processing an application for a travel document issued under subsection 31(3) of the Act.
Section 315.1 — Fee — $85
A fee of $85 is payable for the provision of services in relation to the collection of biometric information under section 10.01 of the Act. The following persons are not required to pay the fee…
Section 315.2 — Fee — $1,000
A fee of $1,000 is payable for the provision of services in relation to an assessment from the Department of Employment and Social Development that is requested by an employer or group of employers…
Section 315.21 — Interpretation
The definitions in this section apply in this Division. Agreement means the Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America for the Sharing of Visa and…
Section 315.22 — Purpose
The purpose of this Division is to implement the Agreement, the objectives of which, as elaborated more specifically through its provisions, are to specify the terms, relationships, responsibilities…
Section 315.23 — Authority to disclose information
The Minister may disclose information to the Government of the United States in making a query to that Government, or in response to a query made by that Government, only for the following purposes:…
Section 315.24 — Necessary, relevant and proportionate information
Only information that is necessary, relevant and proportionate to achieving the purposes of this Division may be disclosed.
Section 315.25 — Information categories
Only information belonging to the following information categories in respect of a national of a third country may be disclosed: biographic data to be used for the purposes of identity verification,…
Section 315.26 — Destruction of information
Any information collected by the Minister that is determined not to be relevant to a query and that was not used for an administrative purpose, as defined in section 3 of the Privacy Act , must be…
Section 315.27 — Correction of previously disclosed information
If the Minister is made aware that previously disclosed information is inaccurate, the Minister must notify the Government of the United States and provide correcting information. If the Minister…
Section 315.28 — Interpretation
The definitions in this section apply in this Division. Asylum Annex means the Annex Regarding the Sharing of Information on Asylum and Refugee Status Claims to the Statement of Mutual Understanding…