Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (SOR/2002-227)

Marginal note:Fee — $125

• 300. (1) A fee of $125 is payable for processing an application for a study permit.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) The following persons are not required to pay the fee referred to in subsection (1):

  • (a) a person in Canada who has made a refugee claim that has not yet been determined by the Refugee Protection Division, and their family members;

  • (b) a person in Canada on whom refugee protection has been conferred, and their family members;

  • (c) a person who is a member of the Convention refugees abroad class or a humanitarian-protected persons abroad class, and their family members;

  • (d) a properly accredited diplomat, consular officer, representative or official of a country other than Canada, of the United Nations or any of its agencies or of any intergovernmental organization of which Canada is a member, the members of the suite of such a person and the family members of such a person;

  • (e) a member of the armed forces of a country that is a designated state for the purposes of the Visiting Forces Act, including a person who has been designated as a civilian component of that visiting force under paragraph 4(c) of that Act, and their family members;

  • (f) a person who holds a study permit and is temporarily destitute, as described in paragraph 208(a);

  • (g) a person whose study in Canada is under an agreement or arrangement between Canada and another country that provides for reciprocity of student exchange programs;

  • (h) a person who works in Canada as an officer of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service or of United States Customs carrying out pre-inspection duties, as an American member of the International Joint Commission or as a United States grain inspector, and their family members; and

  • (i) a United States Government official in possession of an official United States Government passport who is assigned to a temporary posting in Canada, and their family members.

Marginal note:Fee

• 301. (1) The following fees are payable for processing an application to remain in Canada as a permanent resident:

  • (a) if the application is made by a person as a member of the spouse or common-law partner in Canada class

    • (i) in respect of a principal applicant, $475,

    • (ii) in respect of a family member of the principal applicant who is 22 years of age or older or is less than 22 years of age and is a spouse or common-law partner, $550, and

    • (iii) in respect of a family member of the principal applicant who is less than 22 years of age and is not a spouse or common-law partner, $150; and

  • (b) if the application is made by a person as a member of the live-in caregiver class or as a protected person referred to in subsection 21(2) of the Act

    • (i) in respect of a principal applicant, $550,

    • (ii) in respect of a family member of the principal applicant who is 22 years of age or older or is less than 22 years of age and is a spouse or common-law partner, $550, and

    • (iii) in respect of a family member of the principal applicant who is less than 22 years of age and is not a spouse or common-law partner, $150.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (1.1) A person who is a member of the protected temporary residents class and the family members included in their application are not required to pay the fees referred to in subsection (1).

• Marginal note:Payment by sponsor

  (2) The fee payable under subsection (1) in respect of a person who makes an application as a member of the spouse or common-law partner in Canada class or their family members

  • (a) is payable, together with the fee payable under subsection 304(1), at the time the sponsor files the sponsorship application; and

  • (b) shall be repaid in accordance with regulations referred to in subsection 20(2) of the Financial Administration Act if, before the processing of the application to remain in Canada as a permanent resident has begun, the sponsorship application is withdrawn by the sponsor.

• Marginal note:Age

  (3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), the age of the person in respect of whom the application is made shall be determined as of the day the sponsorship application is filed.