An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (appeal process for temporary resident visa applicants)

This bill is from the 40th Parliament, 3rd session, which ended in March 2011.

Sponsor

Olivia Chow  NDP

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Dec. 13, 2010
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment establishes an appeal process for temporary resident visa applicants under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. It seeks to extend the jurisdiction of the Immigration Appeal Division under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Board by expanding its mandate to include appeals from temporary resident visa applicants who have been refused a temporary resident visa or extension of that visa.

Similar bills

C-255 (42nd Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (appeal process for temporary resident visa applicants)
C-405 (41st Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (appeal process for temporary resident visa applicants)
C-405 (41st Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (appeal process for temporary resident visa applicants)

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-604s:

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