🍁 In Simple Terms
If the government paid for your removal from Canada, you must repay those costs before you can return. The amount owed depends on how you were removed — whether you were escorted, travelled by air, or left by other means. Certain exceptions apply for medical escorts.
Affects: Persons subject to removal or detention
Legal Text — IRPR Regulation 243
(1)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
(2)(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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