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PART 1: Immigration to CanadaDIVISION 7: Right of Appeal
§63

Right to appeal — visa refusal of family class

Right to appeal — visa refusal of family class

🍁 In Simple Terms

Five doors into the Immigration Appeal Division: a sponsor whose family class relative was refused a visa, someone holding a permanent resident visa who is ordered removed, a permanent resident or protected person ordered removed, a permanent resident found abroad to have missed the 730-day rule, and the Minister when the Immigration Division rules against him. Visitors, students and workers are not on the list.

Affects: Persons subject to removal or detention
Legal Text: IRPA Section 63

(1)A person who has filed in the prescribed manner an application to sponsor a foreign national as a member of the family class may appeal to the Immigration Appeal Division against a decision not to issue the foreign national a permanent resident visa.

Right to appeal — visa and removal order

(2)A foreign national who holds a permanent resident visa may appeal to the Immigration Appeal Division against a decision to make a removal order against them made under subsection 44(2) or made at an admissibility hearing.

Right to appeal removal order

(3)A permanent resident or a protected person may appeal to the Immigration Appeal Division against a decision to make a removal order against them made under subsection 44(2) or made at an admissibility hearing.

Right of appeal — residency obligation

(4)A permanent resident may appeal to the Immigration Appeal Division against a decision made outside of Canada on the residency obligation under section 28.

Right of appeal — Minister

(5)The Minister may appeal to the Immigration Appeal Division against a decision of the Immigration Division in an admissibility hearing.

Cross-References
Amendment History (2)
2001, c. 27, s. 63
2015, c. 3, s. 110
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