According to Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR), an applicant (for this article, I am referring to a stateless person) can apply for permanent residency programs under various programs or pathways including but not limited to:

• ·      Federal Skilled Worker Class. Members of this class are defined under section 75(2) of IRPR.
• ·      Quebec Skilled Worker Class. Members of this class are defined under section 86(2) of IRPR.
• ·      Provincial Nominee Class. Members of this class are defined under section 87(2) of IRPR.
• ·      Canadian Experience Class. Members of this class are defined under section 87.1 (2) of IRPR.
• ·      Federal Skilled Trades Class. Members of this class are defined under section 87.2 (3) of IRPR.
• ·      Atlantic Immigration Class. Members of this class are defined under section 87.3 (2) of IRPR.

 

There are many other PR programs / pathways where an applicant (stateless person) can apply to become a permanent resident in Canada. Below are the screenshots of the regulations I mentioned above:

I purposely highlighted the words “foreign national” of each of the regulations. While every program has its own requirements and assessment criteria, IRPR has termed the members commonly as “foreign national”. Now we need to know who is called “foreign national”.

Section 2(1) of Immigration and Refugee Protection Act has described what is meant by foreign national.

Here they clearly included a stateless person under the term “foreign national” without imposing any further classification or putting any special considerations. Therefore, a stateless person can surely apply for a permanent residency application as/if they are eligible for permanent residency application as described by that program’s guidelines.

Some people may argue or raise concerns about being inadmissible in Canada because of the previous history of the stateless person. Please read this article about inadmissible grounds for Canada Immigration to know in detail about that. One thing I can assure you, just being stateless won’t make you inadmissible unless you committed some crime or has other backgrounds as mentioned in the above article.   

Disclaimer: The above article is based on various government sources including but not limited to the references mentioned within the article and below. Therefore, there might be some portions of the write-ups directly quoted from the original source(s) but with no intention of copyright. The entire article has been written with the intention of making it easier to understand by the common people who does not practice Canada Immigration Law or work as licensed practitioner

The above writing is not intended to be a source of legal advice. Please seek legal advice and use your own good judgement before choosing to act on any information provided above. If you choose to rely on this article, you do so entirely at your own accountability.