Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Year: 2024
Month: March
Request Number: 2A-2020-43110
Request Summary: clarification Final versions (excluding Cabinet Confidence material and material needing consultation with the Department of Justice) of any discussion/investigation/acknowledgement/reports (including emails) on the topic of individuals travelling to Canada expressly for the purpose of giving birth and obtaining Canadian citizenship, colloquially termed Birth Tourism, at the upper levels of the IRCC and what the result was. From January 2017 to October 2020. * 'at the upper levels of the IRCC' is to mean staff within the National Headquarters and Office of the Minister who are not frontline service officers. Original Final versions of communications and reports made within the IRCC relating to, addressing, or mentioning the topic of individuals travelling to Canada expressly for the purpose of giving birth and obtaining Canadian citizenship. Colloquially termed Birth Tourism. Date range: October 2015 - October 2020
Disposition: Disclosed in part
Number of pages: 364