Common menu bar Breadcrumb Temporary public policy concerning victims of sexual violence in Haiti I hereby establish pursuant to section 25.2 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (the "Act"), that there are sufficient public policy considerations warranting an exemption from the requirement to be a member of an immigration class in order to facilitate the granting of permanent resident status to up to 40 Haitian women and their dependants who were displaced as a result of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti; have been referred by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ); are victims of sexual violence (or their accompanying dependant is a victim of sexual violence); continue to be in a vulnerable situation in Haiti where they face a threat to their security or life (or their accompanying dependant is in such a situation); and have no effective protection or durable solution in Haiti. I have further established that there are sufficient public policy considerations to warrant a waiver of (i) the requirement to pay the application processing fee specified in section 295(1)(c) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (the "Regulations"); (ii) the requirement to be a member of a class specified in section 70(1)(c) and (d) of the Regulations and (iii) the requirement to produce evidence that payment of application fees has been made specified in section 10(1)(d) of the Regulations. I have also established that there are sufficient public policy considerations to warrant an exemption to persons who comply with the criteria