Canadian Immigration and
Citizenship Indexing Terms

December 2002

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Daily life
  FRA:  Vie quotidienne
  UF:   Domestic life

Danger opinion
  FRA:  Avis de danger

Danger to the public
  FRA:  Danger pour le public au Canada

DART
  USE:  Disembarkation and Roving Team

Data warehouse
  FRA:  Entrepôt de données
  SN:   Use to describe the repository of all data        
        required by Citizenship and Immigration Canada to 
        support managerial reporting and analysis; as well
        as the reporting requirements of other governments
        and central agencies.                             

Databases
  FRA:  Base de données

Date of birth
  FRA:  Date de naissance
  UF:   DOB

Date of birth changes
  USE:  Amendments to date of birth

Death rate
  FRA:  Taux de mortalité

Decision making
  FRA:  Prise de décision

Declaration of retention
  FRA:  Déclaration de rétention
  SN:   Under the Canadian Citizenship Act citizens       
        subject to loss under subsections 4(2), 5(2) and  
        42(2) could retain citizenship by filing a        
        declaration of retention.                         

Declarations
  USE:  Statutory declarations

Deemed rehabilitation
  FRA:  Réadaptation présumée

Deemed residence
  FRA:  Résidence présumée

Delayed registration of birth abroad
  FRA:  Enregistrement différé d'une naissance à l'étranger
  SN:   The present Act provision is an extension of      
        paragraph 5(1)(b) of the Former Act. It applies to
        individuals born between January 1,1947 and        
        February 14, 1977 inclusive, who met the           
        requirements of and were not previously registered
        under paragraph 5(1)(b). This is a transitional   
        provision of the Citizenship Act extended at the  
        Minister's discretion under subsection 4(3).      

Delegation of authorities
  FRA:  Délégation de pouvoir
  UF:   Authority

Demographic statistics
  FRA:  Statistiques démographiques
  UF:   Vital statistics

Demography
  FRA:  Démographie
  SN:   A study which encompasses the statistics of       
        births, deaths, diseases etc. of a community.     
  UF:   Population studies

Departure orders
  FRA:  Mesure d'interdiction de séjour
  SN:   A foreign national who is the subject of a        
        departure order must leave Canada within 30 days  
        of a departure order becoming enforceable.        
  UF:   Conditional departure orders

Departure verification
  FRA:  Vérification de départ

Dependent children
  FRA:  Enfants à charge

Dependents
  FRA:  Personne à charge
  USE:  Family members

Deportation
  FRA:  Expulsion
  SN:   Use for the lawful removal from a country of a    
        prohibited or criminal non-citizen.               

Deportation orders
  FRA:  Mesure d'expulsion
  SN:   A deportation order is created automatically if a 
        foreign national subject to an enforceable        
        departure order does not physically depart Canada 
        within the allotted 30 days.                      

Derivation
  FRA:  Transmission de la citoyenneté par filiation
  SN:   Term used to describe acquisition of citizenship  
        by descent by a child born outside Canada.        

Derivation claims
  USE:  Derivative claims

Derivative claims
  FRA:  Demande de citoyenneté par filiation
  UF:   Derivation claims

Derivative parent
  FRA:  Parent qui donne la citoyenneté à ses enfants
  SN:   Under the Naturalization Act the derivative parent
        was the father. A child could only derive British 
        subject status through the father if born in      
        wedlock.                                          

Designated medical practitioners
  FRA:  Médecin désigné

Desktop publishing
  USE:  Electronic publishing

Destination matching requests
  FRA:  Demande de destination-jumelage
  UF:   DMR

Detention
  FRA:  Détention

Detention facility
  FRA:  Installation de détention
  UF:   Jails
        Penitentiary
        Prison

Detention review
  FRA:  Examen des motifs de la détention

Developing countries
  FRA:  Pays en développement
  UF:   Third World

Development
  FRA:  Dèveloppement

Diplomatic embassies
  USE:  Diplomatic missions

Diplomatic missions
  FRA:  Mission diplomatique
  UF:   Consulates
        Diplomatic embassies
        Embassies

Directories
  FRA:  Répertoire
  SN:   Use for a list of people, companies, institutions,
        organizations, etc. in alphabetical or classified 
        order, providing contact information and other    
        pertinent details in brief format, often published
        serially.                                         

Disabilities
  FRA:  Handicap
  UF:   Handicaps
        Physical impairments

Disability
  FRA:  Infirmité
  SN:   The Naturalization Act uses this term to refer to 
        married women, a minor, idiot or lunatic. In the  
        Canadian Citizenship Act it is as defined as a    
        minor, idiot or lunatic. This reflects the        
        language and terms used in these Acts.            

Disabled persons
  USE:  Persons with disabilities

Disadvantaged groups
  FRA:  Groupe défavorisée
  SN:   Use for groups which have low status in a society 
        due to reasons of race, sex, membership in an     
        ethnic group, economics, language, environment or 
        education.                                        

Discretionary grants
  FRA:  Pouvoir discrétionnaire d'attribuer la citoyenneté
  SN:   As per 5(4) of the Citizenship Act.               

Discretionary payments
  FRA:  Paiement discrétionnaire

Discrimination
  FRA:  Discrimination
  SN:   Use for the act or practice of making or showing a
        difference based on prejudice.                    
  UF:   Prejudice

Discussion papers
  FRA:  Documents de réflexion

Diseases
  FRA:  Maladie

Disembarkation and Roving Team
  FRA:  Équipe d'intervention au débarquement
  UF:   DART

Disembarkation screening
  FRA:  Contrôle au débarquement

Displaced persons
  FRA:  Personne déplacée
  SN:   Use for people forced out of their own country by 
        war, famine, political disturbance, etc.          

Disposition
  FRA:  Décision
  SN:   The outcome of criminal charge or proceedings and 
        can be a discharge or a conviction.               

Dispute resolution
  USE:  Conflict resolution

Dispute settlement
  USE:  Conflict resolution

Distance education
  FRA:  Formation à distance
  SN:   Use for education in which students and teachers  
        are not physically present in the same location,  
        but rather communicate using information and      
        communication technologies.                       
  UF:   Distance training

Distance training
  USE:  Distance education

Distribution of population
  USE:  Population distribution

Divorce
  FRA:  Divorce

DMR
  USE:  Destination matching requests

DNA testing
  FRA:  Test d'identification par le code génetique

DOB
  USE:  Date of birth

DocuPost
  FRA:  DocuPoste
  SN:   Use to describe the Canada Post service that      
        applicants can use to send applications, guides   
        and forms in Canada.                              

Domestic life
  USE:  Daily life

Domestic violence
  USE:  Family violence

Donations
  FRA:  Don

Dual citizenship
  FRA:  Double citoyenneté
  SN:   A person who is recognized as a citizen by two or 
        more countries.                                   
  UF:   Dual nationality
        Multiple citizenship
        Plural nationality

Dual nationality
  USE:  Dual citizenship

Dual offence
  USE:  Hybrid offences

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