Program directory · Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

Humanitarian/Compassionate and Discretionary Immigration

Department

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

Program code

BGE04 (CI)

Core responsibility

Immigrant and Refugee Selection and Integration

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

In accordance with Canada’s annual Immigration Levels Plan, IRCC facilitates the admission of a targeted number of permanent residents based on humanitarian and compassionate grounds or public policy considerations. These provisions allow the Minister to address exceptional circumstances by granting an exemption from certain criteria or obligations of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or by granting permanent or temporary residence. Applicants under the humanitarian and compassionate provisions are assessed on a case-by-case basis, taking into account factors such as how established the person is in Canada, general family ties to Canada, the best interests of any children involved, and what could happen to the applicant if the request is not granted. The public policy provision is a discretionary tool that allows for the granting of permanent resident status to groups of individuals in similar circumstances (for instance, displaced Tibetans in India), all of whom must meet eligibility criteria defined in the public policy. IRCC issues permanent resident documentation to successful applicants.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.