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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