The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) contains various provisions that allow the Minister to issue instructions that enable the Government of Canada to attain its immigration goals.
Ministerial Instructions (MI) are typically issued for limited periods, and can include instructions that address application intake, processing, and selection, or create a pilot program.
Links to:
Ministerial Instructions to establish permanent resident programs
- Ministerial Instructions 7 (MI7): Start-Up Visa Program
- Ministerial Instructions 14 (MI14): Caregiver Program
- Ministerial Instructions 16 (MI16): Immigrant Investor Venture Capital Class
- Ministerial Instructions 23 (MI23): Atlantic Immigration Pilot
- Ministerial Instructions 32 (MI32) and 63 (MI63): Caregiver Program
- Ministerial Instructions 33 (MI33): Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot
- Ministerial Instructions 35 (MI35): Agri-Food Immigration Pilot
- Ministerial Instructions 56 (MI56): Amendments to the National Occupation Classification for the Caregiver Program, Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot and Agri-food Pilot
Ministerial Instructions for attaining other immigration goals
- Ministerial Instructions regarding the issuance of Temporary Resident Permits to victims of human trafficking
- Ministerial Instructions 1 (MI1): Federal Skilled Workers
- Ministerial Instructions 2 (MI2): Federal Skilled Workers, Canadian Experience Class, Immigrant Investor Program
- Ministerial Instructions 3 (MI3): Federal Skilled Workers, Immigrant Investor Program, Entrepreneurs
- Ministerial Instructions 4 (MI4): Parents and Grandparents, Federal Skilled Workers
- Ministerial Instruction regarding the Parent and Grandparent Super Visa
- Ministerial Instructions 5 (MI5): Federal Skilled Workers, Immigrant Investor Program
- Ministerial Instructions protecting vulnerable foreign workers from the risk of abuse and exploitation in sex trade related businesses
- Ministerial Instructions 6 (MI6): Federal Skilled Trades Program
- Ministerial Instructions 8 (MI8): Federal Skilled Workers
- Ministerial Instructions 9 (MI9): Parents and grandparents
- Ministerial Instructions 10 (MI10): Canadian Experience Class
- Ministerial Instructions 11 (MI11): Work permits
- Ministerial Instructions 12 (MI12): Federal Skilled Workers, Federal Skilled Trades, Canadian Experience Class
- Ministerial Instructions 13 (MI13): Processing of new and existing applications for temporary residence and permanent residence
- Ministerial Instructions 15 (MI15): Instructions for Managing Certain Permanent Resident Applications in the Economic Class
- Ministerial Instructions 17 (MI17): Instructions respecting the Immigrant Investor Venture Capital Class
- Ministerial Instructions 18 (MI18): Instructions respecting the Immigrant Investor Venture Capital Class
- Ministerial Instructions 19 (MI19): Instructions respecting the Immigrant Investor Venture Capital Class
- Ministerial Instructions: Parents and Grandparents
- Ministerial Instructions 20 (MI20): Spouses, Partners and Dependent Children
- Ministerial Instructions 21 (MI21): Parents and Grandparents
- Ministerial Instructions 22 (MI22): Ministerial Instructions pursuant to subsection 24(3) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act Concerning Foreign Nationals affected by the U.S. Executive Order entitled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”
- Ministerial Instructions 24 (MI24): Atlantic Immigration Pilot
- Ministerial Instructions 25 (MI25): Parents and Grandparents
- Ministerial Instructions 26 (MI26): Farmer Management Stream of Self-Employed Program
- Ministerial Instructions 27 (MI27): Work permits
- Ministerial Instructions 28 (MI28): Parents and Grandparents
- Ministerial Instructions 29 (MI29): Parents and Grandparents
- Ministerial Instructions 30 (MI30): Ministerial Instructions pursuant to subsection 24(3) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act concerning foreign nationals who are victims of family violence
- Ministerial Instructions 31 (MI31): Ministerial Instructions for out-of-status construction workers in the Greater Toronto Area
- Ministerial Instructions 36 (MI36): Ministerial Instructions with respect to the processing of applications for a permanent resident visa made by parents or grandparents of a sponsor as members of the family class and the processing of sponsorship applications made in relation to those applications
- Ministerial Instructions 37 (MI37): Ministerial Instructions with respect to the processing of certain new and existing applications for temporary residence to further support Government wide measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
- Ministerial Instructions 38 (MI38): Ministerial Instructions with respect to the processing of certain new and existing applications for temporary residence to further support Government wide measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
- Ministerial Instructions 39 (MI39): Ministerial Instructions with respect to the processing of certain new and existing applications for temporary residence to further support Government wide measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
- Ministerial Instructions 40 (MI40): Ministerial Instructions with respect to the processing of certain new and existing applications for temporary residence to further support Government wide measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
- Ministerial Instructions 41 (MI41): Ministerial Instructions with respect to the submission of online applications for temporary resident visas and other documents due to reduced processing capacity during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.
- Ministerial Instructions 42 (MI42): Ministerial Instructions with respect to the submission of online applications for temporary resident visas and other documents due to reduced processing capacity during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.
- Ministerial Instructions 43 (MI43): Ministerial Instructions with respect to the processing of applications for a permanent resident visa made by parents or grandparents of a sponsor as members of the family class and the processing of sponsorship applications made in relation to those applications.
- Ministerial Instructions 44 (MI44): Ministerial Instructions with respect to the submission of online applications for temporary resident visas and other documents due to reduced processing capacity during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic
- Ministerial Instructions 45 (MI45): Ministerial Instructions for out-of-status construction workers in the Greater Toronto Area
- Ministerial Instructions 46 (MI46): Ministerial Instructions regarding the processing of applications under the Home Support Worker Class and Home Child Care Provider Class
- Ministerial Instructions 47 (MI47): Ministerial Instructions with respect to the submission of online applications for temporary resident visas and other documents due to reduced processing capacity during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic
- Ministerial Instructions 48 (MI48): Parents and grandparents
- Ministerial Instructions 49 (MI49) and 50 (MI50): Parents and grandparents.
- Ministerial Instructions 51 (MI51): Ministerial Instructions with respect to the submission of online applications for temporary resident visas and other documents due to reduced processing capacity during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic
- Ministerial Instructions 52 (MI52): New Ministerial Instructions regarding the processing of certain work permit applications
- Ministerial Instructions regarding the Parent and Grandparent Super Visa
- Ministerial Instructions 53 (MI53) and 54 (MI54): Parents and grandparents.
- Ministerial Instructions 57 (MI57): Ministerial instructions with respect to the processing on a priority basis of applications for work permits and the related applications for temporary resident visas and electronic travel authorizations
- Ministerial Instructions 58 (MI58): New ministerial instructions regarding the processing of certain work permit applications
- Ministerial Instructions 59 (MI59) regarding the processing of applications under the Home Support Worker Class and the Home Child Care Provider Class
- Ministerial Instructions 60 (MI60): Ministerial instructions for out-of-status construction workers in the Greater Toronto Area
- Ministerial Instructions 61 (MI61): Ministerial instructions for the submission of online applications for permanent resident visas and other documents
- Ministerial Instructions 62 (MI62): Ministerial Instructions with respect to the submission of online applications for temporary resident visas and other documents
- Ministerial Instructions 63 (MI63): Ministerial Instructions for certain individuals in Canada who came to Canada under the age of 19 and were under the legal responsibility of the child protection system
- Ministerial Instructions 64 (MI64): Parents and Grandparents
- Ministerial Instructions regarding the Parent and Grandparent Super Visa (2023)
- Ministerial Instructions 66 (MI66): Ministerial instructions for the submission of online applications for permanent resident visas and other documents
- Ministerial Instructions 67 (MI67): Ministerial Instructions for out-of-status construction workers in the Greater Toronto Area
- Ministerial Instructions (MI68): Letter of acceptance verification
- Ministerial Instructions (MI69): Parents and Grandparents
- Ministerial Instructions (MI70): Ministerial Instructions with respect to the processing of certain applications for a study permit
