Citizenship and Immigration Canada

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Citizenship and Immigration Canada

• the central bureaucratic organization in charge
  of immigration matters
• most decisions and most policy made here
• applications for all categories of immigrants
• some preliminary screening for asylum seekers
• recruitment of government assisted refugees
• manages admission to citizenship
• agency on the government side in most of the
  cases we read .. v. Canada the client for DOJ
• net planned spending in Canada for 2003-04
  1,070,400,000

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Immigration and Refugee Board

• Refugee Protection Division
• Immigration Division
• Immigration Appeal Division
• Refugee Appeal Division
• largest administrative tribunal in Canada
• planned spending for 05-06 is 112 million,
  84.5million on refugee determination

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Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal

• two separate courts since July 2003
• 12, 629 proceedings commenced before F.C ., of
  these 10, 651 were immigration matters
• 3634 applications for leave, 569 granted Jan to
  June 2006
• certified question procedure to go to the F.C.A.
• further appeal by leave to the Supreme Court of
  Canada
• judicial review proceedings, see Federal Court
  Act s.18.1(4)

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Canadian Border Services Agency

• formed by Order in Council in December 2003 in
  new Ministry of Public Safety and Emergency
  Preparedness, legislative foundation in Nov 2004
• took over enforcement actions from Citizenship
  and Immigration Canada
• security screening and removals actions, some
  initial interviews (POE)

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How many people should Canada admit next year?
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Some Basic Facts

• Canadian population is approximately 30 million
• over the past decade, annual admissions of
  immigrants and refugees has been approximately
  220,000 (refugees approx 35,000)
• approximately 20 million people of concern to the
  UNHCR (compare with Tuesdays stats)
• Canada admits roughly 2x as many economic
  category migrants as family category migrants