Immigration And Refugee Protection Act Dept: The new directive, issued in a July 22 operational bulletin, emphasizes the criminal nature of desertion in Canada and the United States, which stands to make it harder for American deserters to gain permanent residency in Canada, according to Globe And Mail. Federal officials said the goal of the new procedure is to keep track of these “high-profile, contentious and sensitive cases,” which are scattered throughout the system and citizenship and Immigration Canada has moved to centralize all current cases of military deserters in its systems, and has told the officials in charge of the files to consult their superiors on the way to handle them. “Consequently, persons who have deserted the military in their country of origin may be inadmissible to Canada under … the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act,” the bulletin says. As
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