Program delivery update: Resettlement processing instructions – New look
This section contains policy, procedures and guidance used by IRCC staff. It is posted on the department’s website as a courtesy to stakeholders.
February 10, 2020
The Resettlement Operations Division of the International Network (IN-ROD) has redesigned the navigation structure of the program delivery instructions (PDIs) for processing of resettlement applications. This redesign will help officers to find relevant guidance faster through
- a navigation structure with a common look and feel for consistency
- a navigation outline for each sub-program
- new page link descriptors containing key words to strengthen search bar capacity
- re-structured navigation paths (“breadcrumbs”) to easily return to pages already searched
- detailed tables of contents with numbering of page topics for easy reference
New pages
- Refugee resettlement (REF-OVS-1)
- Government Assisted Refugee (GAR program) (REF-OVS-2)
- Receipt and intake of application (GAR program) (REF-OVS-2-1)
- Quebec resettlement – Government Assisted Refugee (Quebec GAR) (REF-OVS-2-2)
- Blended Visa Office Referral (BVOR program) (REF-OVS-2-3)
- Joint Assistance Sponsorship (JAS program) (REF-OVS-2-4)
- Privately Sponsored Refugee (PSR program) (REF-OVS-3)
- Receipt and intake of application (PSR program) (REF-OVS-3-1)
- Assessment of sponsorship (PSR program) (REF-OVS-3-3)
- Quebec resettlement – Privately Sponsored Refugee (Quebec PSR) (REF-OVS-3-4)
- Resettlement: Eligibility assessment (REF-OVS-4)
- Resettlement: Admissibility (REF-OVS-5)
- Resettlement: Final decision (REF-OVS-6)
- Resettlement: Dependent family members and separated-unaccompanied children (REF-OVS-7)
- Resettlement: Add a new dependent (REF-OVS-7-3)
- One-year window of opportunity (REF-OVS-7-4)
- Resettlement: Preparation for departure to Canada (REF-OVS-8)
- Resettlement: After arrival in Canada (REF-OVS-9)
- Resettlement: After arrival in Quebec (REF-OVS-10)
- Resettlement: Program delivery partners – roles and responsibilities (REF-OVS-11)
- Verifying status and identity of refugees (REF-OVS-12)
Deleted pages
- Communicating with applicants and sponsors
- Convention refugee abroad class: eligibility criteria
- Determining eligibility: The Convention and Protocol
- Determining eligibility: Determining whether the applicant has the ability to establish
- Determining eligibility: Assessing local integration-central questions
- How do applicants access the resettlement program?
- Intake of persons referred who do not meet the refugee definition
- Receiving applications
- Annual cap allocations and exemptions
- ROC-O process overview: Confirming cap spaces
- Sponsorship agreement holder (SAH) caps
- Previous (2017) and new (2018) cap space rules
- Intake: Referrals from other organizations
- Resettlement from overseas: Before the interview - reviewing application and identifying admissibility concerns
- Post-interview processing and final decisions
- Post-interview processing and final decisions: Extending a private sponsorship
- Post-interview processing and final decisions: Joint Assistance Sponsorships (JAS)
- Post-interview processing and final decisions: visa office referred sponsorships
- Destining and travel arrangements
- Destining and travel arrangements: Preparing a Destination Matching Request (DMR)
- Destining and travel arrangements: sending a Destination Matching Request (DMR)
- Destining and travel arrangements: Preparing travel arrangements
- Procedures for processing urgent protection (UPP) cases
- Processing Urgent Protection cases: initial contact
- Procedures for processing urgent protection cases: Final decisions
- Procedures for processing urgent protection cases: medical screening and health coverage
- Procedures for processing urgent protection cases: Temporary resident permits and permanent resident status
- Procedures for processing urgent protection cases: Criminality and security screening
- Procedures for processing urgent protection cases: Financial and other support
- Procedures for processing urgent protection cases: Travel arrangements
- Procedure: Expedited processing and vulnerable cases
- Resettlement – Quebec cases
- Withdrawal – Quebec resettlement
- Resettlement: Eligibility