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
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FRA: Opération bancaire
UF: Banking services - Banking services
- USE: Banking
- Banks
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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
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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
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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
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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
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FRA: Avantages sociaux
SN: Use to describe government financial help to support people on a short-term basis. - Benner
- USE: Benner decision
- Benner decision
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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
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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
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FRA: Projet de loi C-11
USE: Immigration and Refugee Protection Act - Bill C-16
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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FRA: Parrainage mixte
SN: Use to describe a form of sponsorship that combines financial support from the government and a sponsorship group. - Boat people
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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
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FRA: Né à l’extérieur du Canada
UF:- Born abroad
- Born overseas
- Born overseas
- USE: Born outside Canada
- Borrowing
- USE: Loans
- Boundary waters
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FRA: Eaux limitrophes
UF:- Marine boundaries
- Territorial waters
- Brain drain
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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
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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
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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
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FRA: Planification budgétaire
UF: Budgeting - Budgeting
- USE: Budget planning
- Budgets
- FRA: Budget
- Building industry
- USE: Construction industry
- Burden of proof
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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
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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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