Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

Marginal note:Classes

• 109.1 (1) For the purposes of subsection 12(2) of the Act, the transitional federal investor class, the transitional federal entrepreneur class and the transitional federal self-employed persons class are hereby prescribed as classes of persons who are transitional investors, transitional entrepreneurs or transitional self-employed persons, respectively, and who may become permanent residents on the basis of their ability to become economically established in Canada and who intend to reside in a province other than the Province of Quebec.

• Marginal note:Transitional federal business immigrants

  (2) A foreign national is a transitional investor, a transitional entrepreneur or a transitional self-employed person if they made an application before January 1, 2002 under the former Regulations for an immigrant visa as an investor, an entrepreneur or a self-employed person, respectively, within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of those Regulations that was

  • (a) refused after March 31, 2003 and before June 20, 2003; or

  • (b) withdrawn by the foreign national on or after January 1, 2002 and before December 1, 2003.