Regulations Amending the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (SOR/2015-138)

Policy effect

Amends the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations to authorize the Minister to collect Social Insurance Numbers (SINs) from permanent resident card applicants, travel document applicants, and sponsors of parents and grandparents, and disclose them to the Canada Revenue Agency to verify compliance with residency and minimum necessary income requirements.

Conditions and exceptions

Validated condition or limit: Amends the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations to authorize the Minister to collect Social Insurance Numbers (SINs) from permanent resident card applicants, travel document applicants, and sponsors of parents and grandparents, and disclose them to the Canada Revenue Agency to verify compliance with residency and minimum necessary income requirements.

Official source excerpt

Quoted verbatim from the official source below. Ellipses indicate omitted text.

… section 60: DIVISION 1.1 COLLECTION AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION Collection of social insurance number 60.1 (1) The Minister may collect the social insurance number of a permanent resident card applicant or a travel document applicant to verify that the applicant has complied with the obligation set out in section 28 of the Act. Disclosure of social insurance number (2) The Minister may disclose the social insurance number of the applicant to the Canada Revenue Agency for the purpose set out in subsection (1) if the Minister has entered into an arrangement with the Agency for the disclosure of that information. 2. The Regulations are amended by adding the following after section 137: DIVISION 3.1 COLLECTION AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION Collection of social insurance number 137.1 (1) The Minister may collect the social insurance numbers of a sponsor and a co-signer who have submitted an application to sponsor a person set out in clause 133(1)(j)(i)(B), in order to verify that they meet the requirements set out in clause 133(1)(j)(i)(B) and in paragraph 133(1)(k). Disclosure of social insurance number (2) The Minister may disclose the social insurance numbers of the sponsor and the co-signer to the Canada Revenue Agency for the purposes set out in subsection (1) if the Minister has entered into an arrangement with the Agency for the disclosure of that information. COMING INTO FORCE 3. These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered. REGULATORY IMPACT ANALYSIS STATEMENT (This statement is not part of the Regulations.) Issues Under the Permanent Resident program and Parent and Grandparent program, applicants for permanent resident cards and travel documents, as well as sponsors of parents and grandparents, are required to submit certain information to …

Review method

Two separate automated exact-claim source reviews

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• 2015-06-11Order Fixing June 11, 2015 as the Day on which Certain Provisions of the Act Come into Force
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