Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

r. 13 Production of documents

PART 2 General Requirements
DIVISION 3 Documents and Certified Copies

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The law says

IRPR r. 13

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(1)Subject to subsection (2), a requirement of the Act or these Regulations to produce a document is met

(a)by producing the original document;
(b)by producing a certified copy of the original document; or
(c)in the case of an application, if there is an application form on the Department’s website, by completing and producing the form printed from the website or by completing and submitting the form on-line, if the website indicates that the form can be submitted on-line.

Exception

(2)Unless these Regulations provide otherwise, a passport, a permanent resident visa, a permanent resident card, a temporary resident visa, a temporary resident permit, a work permit or a study permit may be produced only by producing the original document.

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Sections numbered under r. 13

Each of these is its own section of the Regulations, numbered after section 13.

IRPR r. 13.11

Disclosure of information

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What that means

Your fingerprints do not stay inside the immigration system. They can reach the RCMP, the national police force. If a possible match turns up against prints police already hold, the RCMP can pass your details to a Canadian police force. Those details are your name, date of birth, other names and the prints themselves. There are two purposes. One is confirming who someone is in a criminal investigation. The other is identifying a person who cannot be identified any other way, including after death.

The law says

(1)Any biometric information and related personal information set out in subsection (2) that is collected under the Act and provided to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police may be used or disclosed by it to a law enforcement agency in Canada for the following purposes, if there is a potential match between fingerprints collected under the Act and fingerprints collected by it or submitted to it by a law enforcement agency in Canada:

(a)to establish or verify the identity of a person in order to prevent, investigate or prosecute an offence under any law of Canada or a province; and
(b)to establish or verify the identity of a person whose identity cannot reasonably be otherwise established or verified because of a physical or mental condition or because of their death.

Information that may be used or disclosed

(2)The following information in respect of a foreign national or a permanent resident may be used or disclosed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police under subsection (1):

(a)their fingerprints and the date on which they were taken;
(b)their surname and first name;
(c)their other names and aliases, if any;
(d)their date of birth;
(e)their gender; and
(f)any file number associated with the biometric information or related personal information.

IRPR r. 13.2

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What that means

This regulation was repealed on July 15, 2026, and no longer has any legal effect. It used to make the body that regulates immigration consultants report to the Minister every year. That body had to send its annual report, its financial statements and other records.

The law says

13.2 [Repealed, SOR/2026-68, s. 53]

IRPR r. 12.7Exemption — biometric information previously provided IRPR r. 13.11Disclosure of information

r. 13 Production of documents

Sections numbered under r. 13

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