Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

Marginal note:Place of application for permanent resident visa

• 11 (1) An application for a permanent resident visa — other than an application for a permanent resident visa made under Part 8 — must be made to the immigration office that serves

  • (a) the country where the applicant is residing, if the applicant has been lawfully admitted to that country for a period of at least one year; or

  • (b) the applicant’s country of nationality or, if the applicant is stateless, their country of habitual residence other than a country in which they are residing without having been lawfully admitted.

• Marginal note:Place of application for temporary resident visa, work permit or study permit

  (2) An application for a temporary resident visa — or an application for a work permit or study permit that under these Regulations must be made outside of Canada — must be made to an immigration office that serves as an immigration office for processing the type of application made and that serves, for the purpose of the application,

  • (a) the country in which the applicant is present and has been lawfully admitted; or

  • (b) the applicant’s country of nationality or, if the applicant is stateless, their country of habitual residence other than a country in which they are residing without having been lawfully admitted.

• Marginal note:Applications to remain in Canada as permanent residents

  (3) An application to remain in Canada as a permanent resident as a member of one of the classes referred to in section 65 or subsection 72(2), and an application to remain in Canada under subsection 21(2) of the Act, must be made to the Department’s Case Processing Centre in Canada that serves the applicant’s place of habitual residence.

• Marginal note:Applications for permanent resident cards

  (4) An applicant for a permanent resident card must send the application to the Department’s Case Processing Centre in Canada that serves the applicant’s place of habitual residence.

• Marginal note:Sponsorship applications

  (5) A person who applies to sponsor a foreign national, other than a foreign national who is making an application for a permanent resident visa under Division 1 of Part 8, must send the application to the Department’s Case Processing Centre in Canada that serves the applicant’s place of habitual residence.