The "Immigration and Refugee Protection Act", S.C. 2001, c. 27, ("IRPA") is an Act of the Parliament of Canada, passed in 2002, which replaced the "Immigration Act, 1976" as the primary federal legislation regulating immigration to Canada.
The IRPA, for the most part, came into force on June 28, 2002. Controversially, the government failed to implement a component of the legislation that would have implemented a Refugee Appeal Division as part of Canada's immigration system.
IRPA creates a high level framework detailing the goals and guidelines the Canadian government has set with regards to immigration into Canada by foreign residents. The Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR) contain the laws created to fit within the IRPA in order to specify how the IRPA is to be applied.
Portions of IRPA are administered by the Canada Border Services Agency.
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