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Part 1 — Immigration to Canada

Part 1 of the IRPA (ss 10–121.4) is the core immigration statute. It covers: rights and obligations on entry; the three immigration classes (family, economic, refugee); inadmissibility grounds (ss 34–42); removal orders; the IRB divisions (RPD, RAD, ID, IAD); refugee protection (ss 96–97); and judicial review.

Key sections

s 10 — Obligation to appear and produce documents
s 11 — Visa or other document requirement
s 12 — Family class; economic class; refugee class — The three immigration categories.
s 13 — Sponsorship of family class
s 16 — Obligation to answer truthfully
s 22 — Temporary resident status
s 24 — Temporary resident permit
s 25 — Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
s 34 — Security inadmissibility
s 36 — Serious criminality
s 37 — Organised criminality
s 38 — Health inadmissibility
s 44 — Admissibility report
s 45 — Admissibility hearing
s 63 — Right of appeal to IAD
s 72 — Judicial review
s 96 — Refugee protection — Convention refugee
s 97 — Person in need of protection
s 98 — Exclusion — Article 1F
s 110 — Appeal to RAD