Resettlement: Program delivery partners – roles and responsibilities
(REF-OVS-11)
This section contains policy, procedures and guidance used by IRCC staff. It is posted on the department’s website as a courtesy to stakeholders.
Branches and offices within IRCC
- Resettlement and Asylum Strategic Operations Branch (RASO)
- Resettlement Services Assurance Team (RSAT)
- International Network
- Migration offices
- Resettlement Operations Division
- Resettlement Operations Centre, Ottawa (ROC-O)
- Operations Planning and Performance Branch (OPPB)
- Domestic Network: Local offices within Canada
- Settlement Network (SN)
- Resettlement Operations Directorate (SN-ROD)
- Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP) offices
Partners outside of IRCC
- Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
- Sponsorship Agreement Holder Council
- Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
- HIAS
- International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration (MIFI)
- RefugePoint
- Refugee Sponsorship Training Program (RSTP)
- Resettlement Assistance Program service provider organizations (RAP SPOs)
- Settlement service provider organizations (SPOs)
- Sponsorship Agreement Holders
- United Nations High Commission of Refugees (UNHCR)
Cases for priority or special processing
Considerations for assessing and processing special or priority case groups, which i nclude cases referred for urgent protection, vulnerable cases, public policies, applicants who are persecuted on a particular basis (for example, women at risk, sexual orientation or gender identity expression) and other groups requiring special attention.
Resettlement: Program delivery partners – Roles and responsibilities
Key partners within and outside IRCC and their respective responsibilities regarding resettlement.