Guide to the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program
2. Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program
2.2 Who may not be sponsored?
The following persons do not qualify for private sponsorship:
- People already in Canada. Such persons seeking Canada’s protection as refugees should contact a local Citizenship and Immigration Centre for information on how to make a refugee claim.
- People who were the subject of a previous sponsorship application
and were refused, unless
- their circumstances have changed;
- new information, which was not presented in the previous application, has come to light; or
- Canadian laws affecting the case have changed.
- People deemed to be Convention refugees by another country and allowed to live there permanently.
- People who fled persecution or civil war some time ago but can now integrate into the country where they are residing or can return home safely.
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