🍁 In Simple Terms
If you don't have standard identity documents, you can submit any identity documents issued in your home country before you entered Canada. If you genuinely cannot get any documents because of conditions in your country of origin, you can submit a statutory declaration explaining why.
Affects: Immigration applicants (economic, family, humanitarian)
Legal Text — IRPR Regulation 178
(1)178 (1) An applicant who does not hold a document described in any of paragraphs 50(1)(a) to (h) may submit with their application
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Official Source: Justice Canada — IRPR r. 178 (authoritative, may differ from this display)
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