Canadian Immigration and Citizenship Indexing Terms
December 2002
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- Daily life
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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FRA: Délégation de pouvoir
UF: Authority - Demographic statistics
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FRA: Statistiques démographiques
UF: Vital statistics - Demography
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FRA: Démographie
SN: A study which encompasses the statistics of births, deaths, diseases etc. of a community.
UF: Population studies - Departure orders
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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
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FRA: Personne à charge
USE: Family members - Deportation
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FRA: Expulsion
SN: Use for the lawful removal from a country of a prohibited or criminal non-citizen. - Deportation orders
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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
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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
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FRA: Demande de citoyenneté par filiation
UF: Derivation claims - Derivative parent
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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
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FRA: Demande de destination-jumelage
UF: DMR - Detention
- FRA: Détention
- Detention facility
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FRA: Installation de détention
UF:- Jails
- Penitentiary
- Prison
- Detention review
- FRA: Examen des motifs de la détention
- Developing countries
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FRA: Pays en développement
UF: Third World - Development
- FRA: Dèveloppement
- Diplomatic embassies
- USE: Diplomatic missions
- Diplomatic missions
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FRA: Mission diplomatique
UF:- Consulates
- Diplomatic embassies
- Embassies
- Directories
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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
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FRA: Handicap
UF:- Handicaps
- Physical impairments
- Disability
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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
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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
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FRA: Pouvoir discrétionnaire d’attribuer la citoyenneté
SN: As per 5(4) of the Citizenship Act. - Discretionary payments
- FRA: Paiement discrétionnaire
- Discrimination
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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
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FRA: Équipe d’intervention au débarquement
UF: DART - Disembarkation screening
- FRA: Contrôle au débarquement
- Displaced persons
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FRA: Personne déplacée
SN: Use for people forced out of their own country by war, famine, political disturbance, etc. - Disposition
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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
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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
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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
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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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