Examination — permanent residents

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The visa in your passport is not the last step. When you land you have to tell the officer if you married, separated or ended a relationship since it was issued, or if anything else material changed or was never disclosed. You also have to show that you and your family members, travelling with you or not, still meet the rules. This is where a quiet change of circumstance turns into a refusal at the airport.

Affects: Foreign nationals and permanent residents in Canada

Legal Text: IRPR Regulation 51

51 A foreign national who holds a permanent resident visa and is seeking to become a permanent resident must, at the time of their examination, (a)inform the officer if(i)the foreign national has become a spouse or common-law partner or has ceased to be a spouse, common-law partner or conjugal partner after the visa was issued, or(ii)material facts relevant to the issuance of the visa have changed since the visa was issued or were not divulged when it was issued; and (b)establish that they and their family members, whether accompanying or not, meet the requirements of the Act and these Regulations.

In Practice

Related Regulations

r. 50.1Designation of unreliable travel documents r. 52Documents — temporary residents

Official Source: Justice Canada: IRPR r. 51 (authoritative, may differ from this display)

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IRPR r.50, Documents — permanent residents

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