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Restricts the ability to appeal certain decisions to the Refugee Appeal Division (RAD), and adds to the powers of officers detaining persons upon entry to Canada for suspected criminality Īmends the definition of what constitutes “human smuggling” under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), introduces new mandatory minimum sentences for human smuggling, and adds new aggravating factors to be considered by the court when determining the penalties for the offences of “trafficking in persons” and “disembarking persons at sea” andĪmends the Marine Transportation Security Act (MTSA) to increase the penalties for individuals and corporations who contravene existing laws, and creates new penalties to be imposed specifically on vessels involved in contraventions of the MTSA.

Creates the new category of “designated foreign national” for members of a group which has been designated by the Minister as an “irregular arrival” to Canada with the resultant creation of a new detention regime mandatory conditions on release from detention restrictions on the issuance of refugee travel documents and bars on certain immigration applications, applicable only to “designated foreign nationals”.

Octo: Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act (C-4): June 26, 2010: Investor Class applications: Cap on the number of applications to be processed per year.

June 26, 2010: to be eligible to apply as a federal skilled worker, applicants must either have a job offer, or they must have experience in one of 29 in-demand occupations. Quebec expanded the family class to sponsor anyone in need.

January 16, 2010: Special immigration measures in response to the earthquake in Haiti, Priority will be given to new and existing sponsorship applications from Canadian citizens, permanent residents and protected persons who have close family members in Haiti. July 23, 2009: Removal of exception to Safe third Country agreement, the removal of the exception being people who are from countries with a temporary suspension of removals.Īugust 21, 2009: Under the partnership, Canada will be able to securely and confidentially check fingerprints with those stored in Australian and U.K. J: Canada imposes visas on Mexico and the Czech Republic. Ma: Visitors from Croatia no longer require a Temporary resident visa.Īp: New Citizenship law in effect, people who became citizens on or after January 1st 1947, and then lost their citizenship will have their citizenship restored back to the date of when they lost it.