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Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

r. 250 Applications for travel documents

  • PART 14 Detention and Release

Last verified: June 2026 · Source: justice.gc.ca

The law says

IRPR r. 250
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250 If a completed application for a passport or travel document must be provided as a condition of release from detention, any completed application provided by a foreign national who makes a claim for refugee protection shall not be divulged to government officials of their country of nationality or, if there is no country of nationality, their country of previous habitual residence, as long as the removal order to which the foreign national is subject is not enforceable.

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Sections numbered under r. 250

Each of these is its own section of the Regulations, numbered after section 250.

IRPR r. 250.1

Inadmissibility on grounds of security — conditions

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What that means

These are the conditions that must be imposed on people released in security cases. Those are cases about whether someone is barred from Canada on security grounds. You report your address, and any change to it in advance, and your employer and workplace the same way. You check in with CBSA monthly, unless you already report under another condition. You appear whenever an officer, the Immigration Division, the Minister or the Federal Court requires it. Your passport and travel documents must be produced so they can be copied. If a removal order comes into force, you surrender those documents. If you do not hold the document needed to remove you, you have to take active steps to get one. You must commit no offences. Any charge or conviction has to be reported in writing without delay. If you plan to leave Canada, you tell CBSA the date in writing.

The law says

250.1 For the purposes of subsections 44(4), 56(3), 58(5), 58.1(4), 77.1(1) and 82(6) of the Act, the conditions that must be imposed on a foreign national or permanent resident are the following:

  • (a)to inform the Canada Border Services Agency in writing of their address and, in advance, of any change in that address;
  • (b)to inform the Canada Border Services Agency in writing of their employer’s name and the address of their place of employment and, in advance, of any change in that information;
  • (c)unless they are otherwise required to report to the Canada Border Services Agency because of a condition imposed under subsection 44(3), 56(1), 58(3) or 58.1(3) or paragraph 82(5)(b) of the Act, to report once each month to the Agency;
  • (d)to present themselves at the time and place that an officer, the Immigration Division, the Minister or the Federal Court requires them to appear to comply with any obligation imposed on them under the Act;
  • (e)to produce to the Canada Border Services Agency without delay the original of any passport and travel and identity documents that they hold, or that they obtain, in order to permit the Agency to make copies of those documents;
  • (f)if a removal order made against them comes into force, to surrender to the Canada Border Services Agency without delay any passport and travel document that they hold;
  • (g)if a removal order made against them comes into force and they do not hold a document that is required to remove them from Canada, to take without delay any action that is necessary to ensure that the document is provided to the Canada Border Services Agency, such as by producing an application or producing evidence verifying their identity;
  • (h)to not commit an offence under an Act of Parliament or an offence that, if committed in Canada, would constitute an offence under an Act of Parliament;
  • (i)if they are charged with an offence under an Act of Parliament or an offence that, if committed in Canada, would constitute an offence under an Act of Parliament, to inform the Canada Border Services Agency of that charge in writing and without delay;
  • (j)if they are convicted of an offence under an Act of Parliament or an offence that, if committed in Canada, would constitute an offence under an Act of Parliament, to inform the Canada Border Services Agency of that conviction in writing and without delay; and
  • (k)if they intend to leave Canada, to inform the Canada Border Services Agency in writing of the date on which they intend to leave Canada.