Program delivery update: Updates to Humanitarian and compassionate (H&C) consideration pages – Part 4
This section contains policy, procedures and guidance used by IRCC staff. It is posted on the department’s website as a courtesy to stakeholders.
June 11, 2025
Program delivery instructions (PDIs) have been adjusted to include minor updates, and other instructions have been created to provide guidance to officers when assessing and processing humanitarian and compassionate applications or requests.
Updated instructions
- Humanitarian and compassionate (H&C) considerations: Considering an H&C request in permanent resident visa applications from outside Canada
- Humanitarian and compassionate (H&C) considerations: Eligibility for H&C consideration in the overseas context
- Humanitarian and compassionate (H&C) considerations: Criminal inadmissibilities – subsections 36(1) and 36(2) of the Act
- Humanitarian and compassionate (H&C) considerations: Medical inadmissibility under subsection 38(1) of the Act
- Humanitarian and compassionate (H&C) considerations: Inadmissibility of family members under subsection 42(1) of the Act
- Humanitarian and compassionate (H&C) considerations: Financial inadmissibility - Social assistance under subsection 39 of the Act
- Humanitarian and compassionate (H&C) considerations: Statelessness