Canadian Immigration and Citizenship Indexing Terms

December 2002

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IAD
USE: Immigration Appeal Division
ID
USE: Immigration Division
Identity
FRA: Identité
Identity documents
FRA: Pièce d’identité
UF: Identity papers
Identity papers
USE: Identity documents
Ideology
FRA: Idéologie
SN: Use to describe a body of doctrines or concepts, especially about social, political, or economic systems.
IFHP
USE: Interim Federal Health Program
Illegal immigrants
FRA: Immigrant non autorisé
SN: Use for a person who has entered a country without a valid temporary resident visa or who has overstayed a temporary resident visa.
UF: Undocumented migrants
Illegal immigration
FRA: Immigration illégale
Illiteracy
USE: Literacy
IMM 0056
USE: Certificate of departure
IMM 1000
USE: Immigrant visa and record of landing
IMM 1346
USE: Visa counterfoil
IMM 5292
USE: Confirmation of permanent residence
Immigrant impact
FRA: Répercussions des immigrants
Immigrant Investor Program
FRA: Programme d’immigration des investisseurs
UF: IPP
Immigrant Loans Program
FRA: Programme des prêts aux immigrants
SN: Use to describe loans approved according to each applicant's needs and ability to repay. Loans, mostly to refugees and other protected persons, are made for permanent residence, to cover the costs of medical examinations abroad, travel documents, transportation to Canada and the right of permanent residence fee.
Immigrant minors
FRA: Mineur immigrant
SN: Use for children and adolescents who immigrate with their parents or legal guardians.
Immigrant Settlement and Adaptation Program
FRA: Programme d’établissement et d’adaptation des immigrants
UF: ISAP
Immigrant visa and record of landing
FRA: Visa d’immigrant et fiche relative au droit d’établissement
SN: As of June 28, 2002 this document, under IRPA, has been eliminated. The permanent resident visa has been replaced by a visa counterfoil affixed in the passport of each permanent resident for travel purposes, and the Confirmation of Permanent Residence which will serve as the record of permanent residence inland. The latter will also be used in the Permanent Resident Card application process.
UF:
  • IMM 1000
  • Immigration landing record
  • Record of landing
Immigrant visas
USE: Permanent resident visas
Immigrant women
FRA: Femme immigrante
Immigrants
FRA: Immigrants
Immigrants' rights
FRA: Droits des immigrants
Immigration
FRA: Immigration
Immigration Act, 1869
FRA: Loi sur l’immigration de 1869
Immigration Act, 1906
FRA: Loi sur l’immigration de 1906
Immigration Act, 1910
FRA: Loi sur l’immigration de 1910
Immigration Act, 1952
FRA: Loi sur l’immigration de 1952
Immigration Act, 1976
FRA: Loi sur l’immigration de 1976
Immigration agents
FRA: Intermédiaire
Immigration and Refugee Board
FRA: Commission de l’immigration et du statut de réfugié
UF: IRB
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
FRA: Loi sur l’immigration et la protection des réfugiés
UF: Bill C-11
Immigration Appeal Division
FRA: Section d’appel de l’immigration
UF: IAD
Immigration categories
FRA: Catégorie d’immigration
UF: Immigration classes
Immigration classes
USE: Immigration categories
Immigration clearances
FRA: Vérification en matière d’immigration
Immigration consultants
FRA: Consultant en immigration
Immigration control officers
FRA: Agent de contrôle de l’immigration
Immigration Division
FRA: Section de l’immigration
SN: Under IRPA the previous 'Adjudication Division' has been renamed the 'Immigration Division'.
UF:
  • Adjudication Division
  • ID
Immigration experience
FRA: Expériences liées à l’immigration
SN: Use for the overall experience of immigration, including problems, expectations and impressions made by immigrants prior to arrival and during the initial stages of settlement.
Immigration guidelines
USE: Immigration regulations
Immigration history
FRA: Histoire d’immigration
Immigration impact
FRA: Répercussions de l’immigration
SN: Use for the overall social, economic and cultural effects of immigration on the receiving country. For items dealing with only one aspect of such effects use the more specific term, eg 'Social change', 'Economic development'.
Immigration landing record
USE: Immigrant visa and record of landing
Immigration levels
FRA: Niveau d’immigration
Immigration officers
FRA: Agent d’immigration
Immigration policy
FRA: Politique d’immigration
SN: Use for a course or method of action deliberately chosen that guides or influences decisions on immigration matters. Use for outlining, discussing or proposing changes to policy. For actual statements issued by political parties or governments, use both this heading and 'Policy documents'.
Immigration Query Response Centre
FRA: Centre des demandes de renseignements
SN: The Query Response Centre responds to requests for verification of immigration and visitor admission records. This includes verifying landing records of those who wish to become Canadian citizens.
UF:
  • QRC
  • Query Response Centre
Immigration regulations
FRA: Règlement sur l’immigration
UF: Immigration guidelines
Immigration research
FRA: Recherche sur l’immigration
Immigration selection
FRA: Sélection des immigrants
SN: Use to describe the process and criteria by which countries choose the people they will accept as immigrants. For items on particular selection categories use the specific category.
Impact studies
FRA: Étude d’impact
UF: Regulatory impact analysis statement
Imperial Act
FRA: Loi impériale
SN: In effect from January 1, 1915 until December 31, 1946. Local certificates were issued in some cases up until December 31, 1917.
Imperial certificates
FRA: Certificat impériale
Imperial Naturalization Act
USE: Naturalization Act
Implied status
FRA: Statut implicite
In-Canada landing class
FRA: Catégorie des demandeurs au Canada
In-Canada Service Provider
FRA: Fournisseur de services au Canada
UF: ISP
In-transit adjustment assistance
FRA: Aide de transition aux immigrants
Inadmissibility
FRA: Non-admissibilité
SN: Applicants may be determined to be inadmissible based on grounds of health, security, violating human or international rights, serious criminality or organized criminality.
Inadmissibility categories
FRA: Catégorie de personnes non admissibles
Income
FRA: Revenu
UF: Earnings
Income security
FRA: Sécurité du revenu
UF: Income support
Income support
USE: Income security
Income tax
FRA: Impôt sur le revenu
Independent class
FRA: Catégorie des immigrants indépendants
UF: Independent immigrants
Independent immigrants
USE: Independent class
Index check
FRA: Vérification dans le répertoire
Indexes
FRA: Index
Indictable offences
FRA: Acte criminel
Infants
FRA: Nouveau-né
SN: Aged from 0-24 months.
UF:
  • Babies
  • Newborns
Infectious diseases
FRA: Maladie infectieuse
UF:
  • Communicable diseases
  • Contagious diseases
  • Transmittable diseases
Information
FRA: Information
Information management
FRA: Gestion de l’information
SN: Use to describe the development, implementation, maintenance of information technology services, and the management of an organization's core information resources.
Information services
FRA: Services de l’information
Information sharing
FRA: Échange de renseignements
Information technology
FRA: Technologie de l’information
Information technology security
FRA: Sécurité informatique
Injunctions
FRA: Injonction
Inservice training
FRA: Formation en cours d’emploi
SN: Use for courses or programs provided by employers and designed to provide employees with job related competencies.
Instructional materials
FRA: Matériel didactique
UF:
  • Learning kits
  • Learning materials
Integration
FRA: Intégration
UF:
  • Acculturation
  • Assimilation
  • Cultural assimilation
Intelligence
FRA: Renseignement
SN: Use to describe any activities which relate to information collection in order to develop an integrated strategic direction for an organization's programs.
Intercultural communications
FRA: Communications interculturelles
UF: Cross-cultural communications
Intercultural differences
FRA: Différences interculturelles
UF: Cultural differences
Intercultural studies
FRA: Études interculturelles
SN: Use for comparisons of sociological, psychological, anthropological and other aspects of two or more cultural groups, either within the same country or in different countries.
UF:
  • Cross-cultural studies
  • Cultural comparisons
  • Ethnic studies
Interdiction
FRA: Interception
SN: Use to describe the process and activities associated with preventing illegal immigrants from reaching Canada.
Interest groups
FRA: Groupe d’intérêt
Intergovernmental affairs
USE: Intergovernmental relations
Intergovernmental relations
FRA: Relations intergouvernementales
UF: Intergovernmental affairs
Intergovernmental transfers
USE: Transfer payments
Interim Federal Health Program
FRA: Programme fédéral de santé intérimaire
UF: IFHP
Internal documents
FRA: Document interne
SN: Use for communications such as newsletters, memos, bulletins etc. for CIC staff only.
Internal migration
USE: Population movement
International adoption
FRA: Adoption internationale
International agencies
USE: International organizations
International agreements
FRA: Accord international
UF: International conventions
International conventions
USE: International agreements
International development
FRA: Dèveloppement international
International organizations
FRA: Organisme international
UF: International agencies
International students
USE: Foreign students
Internees
FRA: Interne
Internet
FRA: Internet
Interpretation
FRA: Interprétation
Interpreter's oath
FRA: Serment de l’interprète
Interprovincial cooperation
USE: Interprovincial relations
Interprovincial relations
FRA: Relations interprovinciales
UF: Interprovincial cooperation
Interviewing
FRA: Entrevue
Intra-regional budget adjustment
FRA: Ajustement budgétaire intrarégional
UF: IRBA
Intranets
FRA: Intranet
Inuit
FRA: Inuit
UF: Eskimos
Investors
FRA: Investisseur
IPP
USE: Immigrant Investor Program
IRB
USE: Immigration and Refugee Board
IRBA
USE: Intra-regional budget adjustment
ISAP
USE: Immigrant Settlement and Adaptation Program
ISP
USE: In-Canada Service Provider

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