C-404
First Session, Forty-first Parliament,
60-61 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-404
An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (denial of tempo­rary resident visa application)
first reading, March 6, 2012
Mr. Davies
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SUMMARY
This enactment requires the Governor in Council to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations to require that a person whose application for a temporary resident visa (visitor class) has been denied be allowed to receive detailed reasons for the refusal, to have a subsequent application heard by a different officer and to resubmit the application without having to pay a fee.
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1st Session, 41st Parliament,
60-61 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012
house of commons of canada
BILL C-404
An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (denial of tempo­rary resident visa application)
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
SHORT TITLE
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Temporary Resident Visa Processing Requirements Act.
SOR/2002-227
IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE PROTECTION REGULATIONS
Amendments to Regulations
2. Within one year of the coming into force of this Act, the Governor in Council must amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations to require that
(a) an officer who denies an application for a temporary resident visa (visitor class) provide sufficiently detailed reasons for the decision to allow the person whose application has been denied to make the necessary adjustments to a subsequent application, where possible;
(b) the application of a person whose previous application for a temporary resident visa (visitor class) was denied and who resubmits the application within one year be considered by:
(i) an officer other than the officer that denied the previous application,
(ii) two or more officers who were not involved in the previous determination, or
(iii) a more senior officer who was not involved in the previous determination; and
(c) a person whose application for a tempo- rary resident visa (visitor class) has been denied and who resubmits the application within one year be exempt, pursuant to subsection 296(2) or 297(1.1) of those Regulations, from the payment of the fee referred to in subsection 296(1) or 297(1), respectively, of those Regulations.
COMING INTO FORCE
Coming into force
3. This Act comes into force 30 days after the day in which it receives royal assent
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