Guide to the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program
2. Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program
2.4 Who may not submit a private sponsorship?
The following persons and groups are ineligible to participate in the sponsorship of refugees:
- Persons and groups liable for a sponsorship undertaking that remains in default.
- Persons convicted in Canada of the offence of murder or an offence set out in Schedule I or II of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, regardless of whether the offence was prosecuted by indictment, and a period of five years has not elapsed since the completion of the sentence imposed under the Criminal Code of Canada.
- Persons convicted of an offence outside Canada that, if committed in Canada, would constitute an offence referred to above, if a period of five years has not elapsed since the completion of the sentence imposed under a foreign law.
- Persons subject to a removal order.
- Persons subject to revocation proceedings under the Citizenship Act.
- Persons detained in any penitentiary, jail, reformatory or prison.
- Persons in default of court-ordered support payments.
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