This section provides you with information on immigrants and refugees in a Canadian context. Through reports, government resources, fact sheets, and relevant books, you will gain a greater understand of immigration in Canada and the social determinants of health.

• Policy
  Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
  Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) set the conditions that govern who enters and who remains in Canada. Canada’s immigration program is governed by the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and its regulations.
• Permanent resident program: Economic classes
  This provides instructions for processing applications submitted under economic classes, for which applicants are selected on the basis of their ability to become economically established in Canada.
• Permanent resident program: Non-Economic classes
  This provides instructions for processing permanent residence applications submitted under family-related and humanitarian classes, for which applicants are selected on the basis of family-reunification, social and humanitarian objectives.
• Resettlement from outside Canada – determine your eligibility
  This provides information on coming to Canada as a refugee – through the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), a designated referral organization, or a referral from a private sponsorship group.
• Claim refugee protection from inside Canada
  This provides information on the services and information available for making a refugee claim from within Canada.
• Refugee appeal division
  This provides information on the Refugee Appeal Division, which is relevant to those who have not received a positive decision from the Refugee Protection Division.
• Humanitarian and compassionate: processing in-Canada applications
  This provides information on the procedures involved in the Humanitarian and Compassionate application process.
• Pre-removal risk assessment - refugee claims in Canada
  This provides information on the eligibility and application process for the pre-removal risk assessment – which is intended for those who are facing removal from Canada.

Reports

• 2019 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration
  The report provides the Minister with an opportunity to consistently report on key details for permanent resident admissions, temporary resident volumes, aspects of inadmissibility as well as gender-based analysis. It also serves as an important contextual backdrop for the projection of permanent resident admissions for the subsequent calendar year, which is essential for planning purposes for IRCC and its partners inside and outside government.
• Social determinants of health: the Canadian facts
  This document presents a spectrum of existing inequities in health in Canada.

Resources

• Refugee resettlement facts
  This fact sheet, developed by UNHCR, outlines the process and programs related to resettlement in Canada.