REQUIREMENTS BEFORE ENTERING CANADA AND SELECTION

(a) selection criteria, the weight, if any, to be given to all or some of those criteria, the procedures to be followed in evaluating all or some of those criteria and the circumstances in which an officer may substitute for those criteria their evaluation of the likelihood of a foreign national's ability to become economically established in Canada;

(b) applications for visas and other documents and their issuance or refusal, with respect to foreign nationals and their family members;

(c) the number of applications that may be processed or approved in a year, the number of visas and other documents that may be issued in a year, and the measures to be taken when that number is exceeded;

(d) conditions that may or must be imposed, varied or cancelled, individually or by class, on permanent residents and foreign nationals;

(e) sponsorships, undertakings, and penalties for failure to comply with undertakings;

(f) deposits or guarantees of the performance of obligations under this Act that are to be given by any person to the Minister; and

(g) any matter for which a recommendation to the Minister or a decision may or must be made by a designated person, institution or organization with respect to a foreign national or sponsor.

DIVISION 2

EXAMINATION

(a) the relevant evidence referred to in subsection (1) includes photographic and fingerprint evidence; and

(b) the foreign national must submit to a medical examination on request.

DIVISION 3

ENTERING AND REMAINING IN CANADA

(a) to become a permanent resident, that they hold the visa or other document required under the regulations and have come to Canada in order to establish permanent residence; and

(b) to become a temporary resident, that they hold the visa or other document required under the regulations and will leave Canada by the end of the period authorized for their stay.

(a) entering, remaining in and re-entering Canada;

(b) permanent resident status or temporary resident status, including acquisition of that status;

(c) the circumstances in which all or part of the considerations referred to in section 24 may be taken into account;

(d) conditions that may or must be imposed, varied or cancelled, individually or by class, on permanent residents and foreign nationals; and

(e) deposits or guarantees of the performance of obligations under this Act that are to be given to the Minister.

(a) a permanent resident complies with the residency obligation with respect to a five-year period if, on each of a total of at least 730 days in that five-year period, they are

(i) physically present in Canada,

(ii) outside Canada accompanying a Canadian citizen who is their spouse or common-law partner or, in the case of a child, their parent,

(iii) outside Canada employed on a full-time basis by a Canadian business or in the public service of Canada or of a province,

(iv) outside Canada accompanying a permanent resident who is their spouse or common-law partner or, in the case of a child, their parent and who is employed on a full-time basis by a Canadian business or in the public service of Canada or of a province, or

(v) referred to in regulations providing for other means of compliance;

(b) it is sufficient for a permanent resident to demonstrate at examination

(i) if they have been a permanent resident for less than five years, that they will be able to meet the residency obligation in respect of the five-year period immediately after they became a permanent resident;

(ii) if they have been a permanent resident for five years or more, that they have met the residency obligation in respect of the five-year period immediately before the examination; and

(c) a determination by an officer that humanitarian and compassionate considerations relating to a permanent resident, taking into account the best interests of a child directly affected by the determination, justify the retention of permanent resident status overcomes any breach of the residency obligation prior to the determination.

(a) a person in possession of a status document referred to in subsection (1) is presumed to have the status indicated; and

(b) a person who is outside Canada and who does not present a status document indicating permanent resident status is presumed not to have permanent resident status.