Immigration and Refugee Protection Act

Canada overhauls immigration enforcement powers: officers can cancel visas, refuse or terminate applications, and Cabinet can act by order in the public interest

A wide-ranging set of amendments to Canada's Immigration and Refugee Protection Act introduces several new enforcement tools. Officers now have explicit authority to terminate application processing, and to cancel, su…

Minor text correction fixes hyphenation error in refugee reporting requirement

A typographical error in the consolidated text of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act has been corrected. The word "ex-ited" (incorrectly split with a hyphen) has been fixed to read "exited" in the provision de…