Canadian Immigration and
Citizenship Indexing Terms

December 2002

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Babies
  USE:  Infants
  
Background check
  FRA:  Vérification des antécédents

Backlog Clearance Program
  FRA:  Programme d'élimination de l'arriéré

Bands
  USE:  Aboriginal peoples

Banking
  FRA:  Opération bancaire
  UF:   Banking services

Banking services
  USE:  Banking

Banks
  FRA:  Banque
  UF:   Chartered banks

Baptismal certificates
  FRA:  Certificat de baptême

Bars to sponsorship
  USE:  Sponsorship bars

Basic not met
  USE:  Basic residence not met

Basic residence
  FRA:  Résidence de base
  SN:   This refers to the minimum residence requirement  
        under the Citizenship Act. Basic residence is     
        calculated before the evaluation of absences.     

Basic residence not met
  FRA:  Critères de base relatifs à la résidence non remplis
  SN:   Use in the case where a citizenship applicant has 
        applied too early and does not meet the minimum   
        amount of time as a permanent resident.           
  UF:   Basic not met
        Not basic met

Battered children
  USE:  Violence against children

Battered women
  USE:  Violence against women

Behaviour
  FRA:  Comportement

Bench marks
  USE:  Benchmarks

Benchmarking
  USE:  Benchmarks

Benchmarks
  FRA:  Repère
  SN:   Use for a value that is used to carry out         
        comparisons or to determine and set objectives.   
  UF:   Bench marks
        Benchmarking

Benefits
  FRA:  Avantages sociaux
  SN:   Use to describe government financial help to      
        support people on a short-term basis.             

Benner
  USE:  Benner decision

Benner decision
  FRA:  Arrêt Benner
  SN:   November 1997 the Supreme Court of Canada ordered 
        that 5(2)(b) Grant is no longer subject to the    
        prohibitions of the Citizenship Act and there is  
        no longer any requirement that the applicant take 
        the Oath of Citizenship.                          
  UF:   Benner
        Benner v. Canada

Benner v. Canada
  USE:  Benner decision

Best practices
  FRA:  Meilleure pratique

Bibles
  USE:  Holy books

Bibliographies
  FRA:  Bibliographie
  SN:   Use to describe a systematic list of works by a   
        specific author or on a given subject, or which   
        share one or more common characteristics.         

Bilateral agreements
  FRA:  Entente bilatérale

Bilingualism
  FRA:  Bilinguisme

Bill C-11
  FRA:  Projet de loi C-11
  USE:  Immigration and Refugee Protection Act

Bill C-16
  FRA:  Projet de loi C-16
  SN:   New citizenship legislation tabled on November 25,
        1999 in the House of Commons.  Due to the         
        dissolution of the 36th Parliament on October 22, 
        2000, this bill was never passed.                 

Bill C-31
  FRA:  Projet de loi C-31
  SN:   The original immigration and refugee protection   
        bill which could not be passed due to elections   
        called for November 27, 2000 and the resulting    
        dissolution of Parliament.  It was superceded by  
        Bill C-11.                                        

Bill C-55
  FRA:  Projet de loi C-55
  SN:   The bill designed to enact a new refugee          
        determination process and to create an independent
        Refugee Board.  Tabled in 1987 it passed in 1988  
        to come into effect on January 1, 1989.           

Bill C-63
  FRA:  Projet de loi C-63
  SN:   Tabled in Parliament on December 7, 1998.  The    
        first session of the 36th Parliament was prorogued
        on September 18, 1999 before the bill could be    
        passed.                                           

Bill C-84
  FRA:  Projet de loi C-84
  SN:   A bill tabled in 1987 and passed in 1988 which    
        aimed at imposing tougher immigration control     
        measures, primarily directed at smugglers and     
        illegal trafficking.                              

Biographies
  FRA:  Biographie

Biometrics
	FRA: Biométrie

Birth certificate showing parentage
  FRA:  Certificat de naissance indiquant la filiation

Birth certificates
  FRA:  Certificat de naissance

Birth rate
  FRA:  Taux de natalité

Blended sponsorship
  FRA:  Parrainage mixte
  SN:   Use to describe a form of sponsorship that        
        combines financial support from the government and
        a sponsorship group.                              

Boat people
  FRA:  Réfugié de la mer
  SN:   Use for unauthorized refugees entering a country  
        by boat.                                          

Bonds
  USE:  Guarantees

Border crossing
  FRA:  Passage des frontières

Borders
  FRA:  Frontière

Born abroad
  USE:  Born outside Canada

Born outside Canada
  FRA:  Né à l'extérieur du Canada
  UF:   Born abroad
        Born overseas

Born overseas
  USE:  Born outside Canada

Borrowing
  USE:  Loans

Boundary waters
  FRA:  Eaux limitrophes
  UF:   Marine boundaries
        Territorial waters

Brain drain
  FRA:  Exode des cerveaux
  SN:   Use for emigration of the most highly trained or  
        educated people from a country or region because  
        of better opportunities elsewhere.                

British Evacuee Children
  FRA:  Enfant britannique évacué
  SN:   Use to describe works dealing with the program    
        established during World War II in which children 
        from Great Britain were sent to live with host    
        families in safe haven countries throughout the   
        Commonwealth to escape Nazi bombing campaigns.    
  UF:   Evacuee children
        Guest children

British Nationality Act
  FRA:  Loi concernant la nationalité britannique

British subject
  FRA:  Sujet britannique
  SN:   For the purpose of applying the Canadian          
        Citizenship Act a person (prior to January 1, 1947
        and April 1, 1949 for Newfoundland) has British   
        subject status in the following situations:  a    
        person born in a British commonwealth country; a  
        child born abroad in wedlock to a British father  
        for plural generations up to January 1, 1915 and  
        for the first generation thereafter; wife of a    
        British subject who has not ceased to be a British
        subject; or through naturalization. British       
        subject status is relevant in determining Canadian
        citizenship under the Canadian Citizenship Act.   
  UF:   British subject status

British subject status
  USE:  British subject

Budget planning
  FRA:  Planification budgétaire
  UF:   Budgeting

Budgeting
  USE:  Budget planning

Budgets
  FRA:  Budget

Building industry
  USE:  Construction industry

Burden of proof
  FRA:  Fardeau de la preuve
  SN:   The onus is on the applicant to demonstrate that  
        he/she meets the requirements of the Act.         

Bureaucracy
  FRA:  Bureaucratie

Business class immigrants
  FRA:  Immigrant de la catégorie des gens d'affaires

Business development
  FRA:  Développement de l'enterprise

Business immigration centres
  FRA:  Centre d'immigration pour gens d'affaires

Business Immigration Program
  FRA:  Programme d'immigration des gens d'affaires

Business migration
  FRA:  Migration des gens d'affaires
  SN:   Use to describe immigration in order to establish 
        business enterprises in the host country.  Usually
        requires a specified level of capital and type of 
        business prior to entry authorization.            
  UF:   Entrepreneur migration

Business services
  FRA:  Services aux enterprises

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