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IRPRPART 13 RemovalDIVISION 4 Enforcement of Removal Orders
r.243

Payment of removal costs

🍁 In Simple Terms

If Canada paid to remove you, you cannot come back until you have paid it back. The amounts are set here: $3,840 for a removal with no escort or an escorted removal that was not by air, and $12,880 for an escorted removal by air. A removal by air under medical escort is charged at the lower rate. Anyone under 18 when the removal order was made owes nothing.

Affects: Persons subject to removal or detention
Legal Text: IRPR Regulation 243

(1)Unless expenses incurred by His Majesty in right of Canada have been recovered from a transporter, a foreign national who is removed from Canada at His Majesty’s expense shall not return to Canada if the foreign national has not paid to His Majesty the removal costs of (a)$3,840 for removal without escort or under escort other than by air; and (b)$12,880 for removal under escort by air.

Exception — medical escort

(2)Despite paragraph 1(b), a foreign national who is removed by air under medical escort is subject to the removal cost set out in paragraph (1)(a).

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Official Source: Justice Canada: IRPR r. 243 (authoritative, may differ from this display)
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