PSR Overview
This Canadian immigration program allows private citizens and organizations to sponsor refugees who are overseas.
What is the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program?
Once a sponsorship group submits the sponsorship application, they must wait for approval from this Canadian governmental body.
What is Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)?
The year RSTP was founded.
What is 1998?
The Principal Applicant document needed for a group of five or community sponsorship.
What is Refugee Status Determination Document?
The number of people who can sponsor is ____ for Quebec and ____ for the rest of Canada.
What is 2 and 5?
BVOR and PSR stand for _______
What is Blended Visa Office of Referred Program and Private Sponsorship of Refugees?
This is the first step in the refugee sponsorship process, where a sponsoring group applies to sponsor a refugee or family.
What is attending RSTP training sessions?
RSTP is a provincial program.
What is RSTP is a federal program?
RSD stands for ________
What is Refugee Status Determination document?
The minimum age of a sponsor
What is 18 years old?
This Canadian governmental body is responsible for overseeing the PSR program and processing refugee sponsorship applications.
What is Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)?
The second step in the refugee sponsorship application process.
What is the second step is completing required refugees and sponsors forms and supporting documents?
RSTP stands for Refugee Selection Training Program.
What is Refugee Sponsorship Training Program?
The Principal Applicant should meet one of these two definitions.
What is Convention Refugee or Country of Asylum Class?
The legal status of a sponsoring group member.
What is a Canadian citizen, a person registered as an Indian under the Indian Act, or a Permanent Resident of Canada?
Canada was the first country in the world to allow resettlement of refugees through this program.
What is Private Sponsorship Refugees?
The third step once the application is approved or returned to sponsors.
What is transfer to the visa office overseas or returned application to sponsors for re-submission of a new application?
RSTP only supports sponsors in english language.
What is multiple languages (French, English, Farsi, Arabic, Tigrinya, Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Kinyankore, Armenian, Amharic, Spanish, Russian, Dari, Kirundi, Polish, Punjabi, Krio, Loko, Temene)
What are the criminal check, medical check and security check?
The sponsorship group meet financial requirements based on this.
What is the Sponsorship Cost Table/RAP Rates?
The PSR program allows refugees to be sponsored from these types of locations, where they have been living outside their home country due to fear of persecution.
What are refugee camps or countries of asylum?
The fourth step is welcoming newcomers.
What is connecting the newcomers with SPOs once in Canada?
RSTP is only in Toronto.
What is the office based in Toronto with Regional Trainers based in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Atlantic and Ontario.
The whole family cannot travel if one of the family members is found_____
What is inadmissible?