Canadian Immigration and
Citizenship Indexing Terms

December 2002

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Oath of Allegiance
  USE:  Oath of citizenship

Oath of citizenship
  FRA:  Serment de la citoyenneté
  UF:   Citizenship oath
        Oath of Allegiance

Oaths
  FRA:  Serment

Occupational health
  FRA:  Santé au travail

Occupational safety
  USE:  Workplace safety

Occupations
  FRA:  Profession

Official languages
  FRA:  Langue officielle

Official publications
  USE:  Government publications

Old section 18
  FRA:  Ancien article 18
  SN:   An historical term used to describe a loss of     
        citizenship under Section 18 of the Canadian      
        Citizenship Act.  This section was repealed July  
        7, 1967.                                          

Older adults
  FRA:  Personne âgée
  SN:   Aged 65 years and over.                           
  UF:   Aged
        Elderly persons
        Elders
        Senior citizens
        Seniors

OM
  USE:  Operations memoranda

OMC
  USE:  Our Missing Children Program

One-year window of opportunity provision
  FRA:  Délai prescrit d'un an
  SN:   The one-year window of opportunity is a regulatory
        mechanism designed to allow immediate family      
        members to reunite with a principal applicant     
        (PA).  To be processed as non-accompanying family 
        members, family members must have been identified 
        on the PA's permanent resident visa application   
        and must submit an application at a visa office   
        within one year of the date of arrival of the PA  
        in Canada.                                        
  UF:   OYW

Operations memoranda
  FRA:  Notes de service sur les opérations
  SN:   Use to describe formal procedures developed by    
        specific program sections of an organization for  
        use by the service delivery section of a          
        department or agency at the operations level.     
  UF:   OM

Opinion polls
  USE:  Public opinion polls

Opinion surveys
  USE:  Public opinion polls

Oral hearings
  USE:  Hearings

Oral history
  FRA:  Histoire orale

Oral interviews
  USE:  Hearings

Oral tests
  USE:  Hearings

Oral tradition
  FRA:  Tradition orale

Organizational change
  FRA:  Changement organisationnel

Organizations
  FRA:  Organisation

Organized crime
  FRA:  Crime organisé

Orientation
  FRA:  Orientation

Original documents
  FRA:  Documents originaux

Orphans
  FRA:  Orphelin

OSP
  USE:  Overseas Service Provider Pilot

Other than natural born
  USE:  Canadian citizen

Our Missing Children Program
  FRA:  Nos enfants disparus
  UF:   OMC

Overseas qualifications
  FRA:  Qualification acquises à l'étranger

Overseas Service Provider Pilot
  UF:   OSP

Overseas students
  USE:  Foreign students

OYW
  USE:  One-year window of opportunity provision

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