Insider Information

The following links are to policy guides relied upon by Citizenship and Immigration Canada and the CBSA. Immigration, citizenship and enforcement officers are trained to and routinely rely on theses guides when assessing issues within their jurisdiction. Note, these guidelines are not law and in many cases the law conflicts with what is published in these guides. However, it is these guides and not exclusively the law, that govern day to day actions of CIC and CBSA officers and administrators. These guides are readily available on CIC's website and are linked here for your convenience. Note, each link will open a .pdf document from CIC's website. Please also note that these guides are frequently edited an updated. Previous versions of each of these guides can be found on previous versions of CIC's website as linked here.


CITIZENSHIP GUIDES

CP 1 — Citizenship Lines of Business

CP 2 — Decision Making

CP 3 — Establishing Applicant’s Identity

CP 4 — Grants

CP 5 — Residence

CP 7 — Waivers

CP 8 — Appeals

CP 9 — Acquisition and Loss of Canadian Citizenship 

CP 10 — Proof of Citizenship

CP 11 — Search of Records

CP 12 — Documents

CP 13 — Administration

CP 14 — Adoptions

CP 15 — Guide to Citizenship Ceremonies

CP 17 — Consular Manual

ENFORCEMENT GUIDES

ENF 1 — Inadmissibility

ENF 2 — Evaluating Inadmissibility

ENF 3 — Admissibility Hearings and Detention Review Proceedings

Appendix C — Direction for Removal Orders

ENF 4 — Port of Entry Examinations

ENF 5 — Writing 44(1) Reports

ENF 6 — Review of Reports under A44(1)

ENF 7 — Investigation and Arrests

ENF 8 — Deposits and Guarantees

ENF 9 — Judicial Reviews

ENF 10 — Removals

ENF 11 — Verifying Departure

ENF 12 — Search, Seizure, Fingerprinting and Photography

ENF 15 — Obligations of Transporters

ENF 17 — Maritimes Procedures

ENF 18 — War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

ENF 19 — IAD Appeal Hearings

ENF 20 — Detention

ENF 21 — Recovering Missing, Abducted and Exploited Children

ENF 22 — Persons Serving Sentences

ENF 23 — Loss of Permanent Resident Status

ENF 24 — Ministerial Interventions

ENF 26 — RAD Appeals

ENF 27 — Permanent Resident Card

ENF 28 — Ministerial Opinions on Danger to the Public and to the Security of Canada

ENF 29 — Alternative Means of Examination Programs


TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKER GUIDES

FW 1 — Foreign Worker Manual
FW 2 — Temporary Foreign Worker: Quick Reference Guide

IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION

IL 1 — Immigration and Refugee Protection Act

IL 2 — Immigration Regulations

IL 3 — Designation of Officers and Delegation of Authority

IL 5 — Immigration Rules

IL 9 — Official Languages Act

INFORMATION SHARING GUIDES

IN 1 — Overview on Information-Sharing

IN 2 — Directives for Sharing Information pursuant to the 2003 Canada-U.S. SMU on Information Sharing

INLAND PROCESSING

IP 1 — Temporary Resident Permits

IP 2 — Processing Applications to Sponsor Members of the Family Class

IP 3 — In Canada Processing of Convention Refugees Abroad and Members of the Humanitarian Protected Persons Abroad Classes

• Part 1 (General)
• Part 2 (Resettlement Assistance Program)
• Part 3 (Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program)
• Part 4 (Joint Assistance Sponsorship Program)
• Appendices

IP 4 — Processing Live-in Caregivers in Canada

IP 5 — Immigrant Applications in Canada made on Humanitarian or Compassionate Grounds

IP 6 — Processing Temporary Resident Extensions

IP 7 — Entrepreneur Program

IP 8 — Spouse or Common-law Partner in Canada

IP 9 — Use of Representatives Paid or Unpaid

IP 10 — Refusal of National Security Cases / Processing of National Interest Requests

IMMIGRATION REFERENCES

IR 1 — Visitors

IR 3 — Medical


OVERSEAS PROCESSING

OP 1 — Procedures
OP 2 — Processing Members of the Family Class
OP 3 — Adoptions

OP 4 — Processing of Applications under Section 25 of the IRPA

OP 5 — Overseas Selection and Processing of Convention Refugees Abroad Class and Members of the Humanitarian-protected Persons Abroad Classes

OP 6 — Federal Skilled Workers
OP 7a — Quebec Skilled Workers

OP 7b — Provincial Nominees

OP 8 — Entrepreneur and Self-Employed

OP 9 — Investors

OP 10 — Permanent Residency Status Determination

OP 11 — Temporary Residents

OP 12 — Students

OP 14 — Processing Applicants for the Live-in Caregiver Program

OP 15 — Medical Procedures

OP 17 — Loans

OP 20 — Temporary Resident Permits

OP 21 — Appeals

OP 22 — Judicial Review

OP 24 — Overseas Processing of Family Members

OP 25 — Canadian Experience Class

PROTECTED PERSONS

PP 1 — Processing Claims for Refugee Protection in Canada

PP 2 — IRB Processes

PP 3 — Pre-removal Risk Assessment (PPRA)

PP 4 — Processing Protected Persons’ in-Canada Applications for Permanent Resident Status