SECU – Inquiry of Ministry – September 19, 2024
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Question No: Q-2715
By: Mr. Moore (Fundy Royal)
Date: May 21, 2024
Reply by the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Paul Chiang, M.P.
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Question
With regard to Temporary Resident Permits (TRP), broken down by year for each of the last five years: (a) how many TRPs have been issued in total and broken down by those who applied (i) abroad prior to arriving in Canada, (ii) at a point of entry, (iii) while already in Canada; (b) for each part of (a), how many and what percentage of the applications required a police certificate or a criminal records check; (c) of the applications in (b), how many (i) did not include a police certificate or criminal records check, (ii) included documents which showed crimes that were severe enough to deny the TRP application; (d) how many individuals were given a TRP despite not submitting a police certificate or passing a criminal records check; and (e) what is the breakdown of (a) through (d) by country of origin?
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Reply
Insofar as Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is concerned:
- Please refer to Annex A for detailed information.
- This information is not systemically tracked and therefore unavailable.
- This information is not systemically tracked and therefore unavailable.
- This information is not systemically tracked and therefore unavailable.
- Please refer to Annex A for detailed information.
A temporary resident permit (TRP) is a document that allows entry into Canada to a foreign national who, in the opinion of an officer, is inadmissible, or who does not meet the requirements of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) [A24(1)].
The purpose of a TRP is to allow an individual to enter Canada who would otherwise be inadmissible, but is justified in certain circumstances.
The Police Certificate is a document generally requested by an officer to be used as evidence to support a decision. Like other forms of evidence, the receipt of a Police Certificate from an applicant is not specifically tracked in IRCC databases. As a result, this data is unavailable.
All values in the report between 1 and 5 are shown as “--”. This is done to prevent individuals from being identified when IRCC data is compiled and compared to other publicly available statistics. All other values are rounded to the closest multiple of 5 for the same reason; as a result of rounding, data may not sum to the totals indicated.