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First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament,
70-71 Elizabeth II – 1 Charles III, 2021-2022-2023
STATUTES OF CANADA 2023
CHAPTER 21
An Act to amend the Immigration and
Refugee Protection Act (temporary resident
visas for parents and grandparents)
ASSENTED TO
JUNE 22, 2023
BILL C-242

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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Immigration and Refugee Protection
Act to allow a parent or grandparent who applies for a tempo-
rary resident visa as a visitor to purchase private health insur-
ance outside Canada and to stay in Canada for a period of five
years.
It also requires the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration to
prepare and table a report in respect of a reduction to the mini-
mum income requirement that the child or grandchild must
meet in order for the visiting parent or grandparent to be able to
enter and remain in Canada for an extended period.
Available on the House of Commons website at the following address:
www.ourcommons.ca
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70-71 ELIZABETH II – 1 CHARLES III
CHAPTER 21
An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Pro-
tection Act (temporary resident visas for parents and
grandparents)
[Assented to 22nd June, 2023]
His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada,
enacts as follows:
Short Title
Short title
1 This Act may be cited as the Reuniting Families Act.
2001, c. 27
Immigration and Refugee
Protection Act
2 The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
is amended by adding the following after sec-
tion 15:
Health insurance policy
15.1 A health insurance policy purchased from an insur-
ance company outside Canada that is approved by the
Minister satisfies any requirement in an instruction given
under subsection 15(4) that a foreign national who ap-
plies for a temporary resident visa in order to visit their
Canadian citizen or permanent resident child or grand-
child for an extended period must have private health in-
surance.
3 Section 29 of the Act is amended by adding the
following after subsection (2):
Extended period
(3) In the case of a temporary resident who is authorized
to enter and remain in Canada for an extended period in
order to visit a Canadian citizen or permanent resident
who is their child or grandchild, the period referred to in
subsection (2) is five years.
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Report to Parliament
Report
4 (1) The Minister of Citizenship and Immigra-
tion must prepare a report in respect of a reduc-
tion to the minimum income requirement that
the child or grandchild of a foreign national must
meet in order for the foreign national to be able
to enter and remain in Canada for an extended
period to visit that child or grandchild, including
in respect of any special circumstances to be tak-
en into account in the processing of temporary
resident visa applications and a review process
for the decisions made in relation to those appli-
cations.
Tabling
(2) The Minister must cause the report to be
tabled in each House of Parliament no later than
one year after this Act receives royal assent or, if
either House is not then sitting, on any of the
first 15 days on which that House is sitting.
Publication
(3) The Minister must publish the report on the
website of the Department of Citizenship and Im-
migration within 10 days after the day on which it
is tabled in a House of Parliament.
Explanation
5 If, within two years after this Act receives royal
assent, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigra-
tion does not provide for a reduction to the mini-
mum income requirement that the child or
grandchild of a foreign national must meet in or-
der for the foreign national to be able to enter
and remain in Canada for an extended period to
visit that child or grandchild or the circum-
stances or review process referred to in subsec-
tion 4(1), the Minister must table in each House
of Parliament a statement of the reasons for not
doing so.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
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Chapter 21: An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (temporary
resident visas for parents and grandparents)
Report to Parliament
Sections 4-5

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Available on the House of Commons website
Disponible sur le site Web de la Chambre des com