work for a Canadian company, or for humanitarian reasons) will retain their
status.
Developing a fraud-resistant permanent resident card.
Ensuring an oral appeal to the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) for all
loss of status cases.
Ensuring that permanent residents without a valid card have the right to
enter if they have been outside Canada for less than one year.
Why we are doing it:
To implement a clear objective standard that is easier to administer.
To replace a document that is easy to forge with one that has
state-of-the-art security features.
And Refugees
Strengthening Refugee Protection: Overseas Resettlement
What we are doing:
Amending the criteria for "ability to establish in Canada" to include social as
well as economic factors.
Pursuing agreements with NGOs to locate, identify, refer and pre-screen
refugee applications in areas where refugees are most in need of protection.
Ensuring that people in urgent need of protection are brought to Canada
within days.
Why we are doing it:
To ensure that the need for protection is the overriding objective in
resettlement from abroad.
To focus existing resources on areas where refugees are most in need of
protection.
Facilitating Family Reunification of Refugees
What we are doing:
Processing overseas families as a unit, including extended family members
of refugees whenever possible.
Allowing dependants of refugees, selected inland or abroad, to be
processed as part of the same application for a period of one year after a
refugee has acquired permanent resident status.
Exempting refugees, their spouses, partners and dependants from the
admission bar with regard to excessive demand on health or social services.
Why we are doing it:
To facilitate the reunification of refugees with their family members as soon
as reasonably practicable.
Faster and Fair Refugee Processing Inland
What we are doing:
Referral to the IRB to be made within three working days.
Consolidating protection decisions at the IRB to examine all risk grounds at
a single hearing. Grounds will include the Geneva Convention, the
Convention against Torture, and the risk of cruel or unusual treatment or
punishment.
The use of single-member panels as the norm, supported by the
establishment of a paper appeal on merit.
Reducing the waiting period from 5 to 3 years for the landing in Canada of
undocumented refugees who are unable to obtain documents from their
listed country of origin because there is no central authority in that country