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    NOV. 7.1999 3:57PM” INDUSTRIAL SECURITY DIVISION 0.872 P4432 5 AVN UNCLASSIFIED CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION CANADA ie ; RELEASED IN FULL ee | Immigrant Processing Security Screening First, all names of applicants at fie reation, are ran against the standard lookout database of the department. This standard lookout database includes thenames of thousands of Known of suspected Cerin, kndwn foreign intelligence officers, organized criminals, war oximinals and vations immigration offenders. Since Aprit 1998, this lookout is also updated on monthly basis with the sear ers ndien information on known or Suspected teorists of the TTPOFE databsse, the database used by the State Department and INS to sereen known or suspected terrorists. Ribjest to a seousity check, For applications made overseas, ach applicant js vetted by an : txperienoed Canada-based Foreign Service Officer agent county specific ‘profile that has been : developed by the Canadian Security and atelligence Services (CIS) in close cooperaton with, Citizenship and immigration Canada(CIC). All individuals who mestthe profile fora given country carreras to CSIS for 2 complete background check and e vise isnot issued until CSIS issues a we rere pat inere are no reportable traces under the standard secarityinadmissibility provisions ___. of the Canadian Immigration Act. Tne profiles are regularly updated. In 1995, ‘CSIS-mg CIC Conducted a joint evaluation of the security screening process based on country specific profiles and | [AN applicants for immigration to Canada between the age of 18 and 65 years ole (inclusive) are i ‘concluded that the process was both effective and efficient of status, made from within Canade, are vetted directly through both ‘Applications for adjustment ane-check and country specific profile assessment by CSIS which has @ direct electronic ink with CIC's Centra! Processing Ceatre in Vegreville Alberta “The security related inadmissibility provisions of the Canadian, Immigration Att 2 among the | toughest in the world, They have inspired some of the immigration inidmissibility provisions | soenrseed in the 1996 Lramigretion Act (IRIRA) and Antiterzorisin Act (AEDPA) in the USA. | Meny ofthese provisions have been tested i courts which have upheld the national security interest | sn such cases. . a | : | Criminality Screening [All applicants for immigretion to Caneda, between, the age of 18 to 65 yours ‘old (inclusive) are fubject to a eniminality check They must present police certficetes fom all locations which have a aaet ble enminal indices system where they have resid for more than six months in the lest ten seuss, Visa officers also use profiles on Asian organized crime, forme: Soviet ‘Union orgenized crime see ir erominals in various countries to sereen applicants in specific locations. (timmigration officers use a world index to determine ) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF St -PARTME} re REVIEW AUTHORITY: THEODORE SE! i DATE/CASE 1D: 14 APR 2005 200202183 UNCLASSIFIED Nov. 7.1999 3'S7PM INDUSTRIAL SECURITY Division NO.873 P1573 CLASSIFIED ‘The RCMP is the agency responsible to support CIC in its efforts to screen criminels. In a number of locations, eriminal record checks are conducted though local police agencies. “The criminality related provisions of the Canadian Immigration Act are clearly the toughest in the Westem world. For example, Canada can exclude anyone suspected of membership in organized crime of involvement in war crime or crime against humanity solely on reasonable grounds to believe, The reasonable grounds to believe provision of U.S. lew is limited to narco-trafficking ‘After the person hes been granted permanent resident status, should they come to the attention of Inmnigretion Enforcement or any other security organization such as: CSIS or the RCMP, 2 watch-out : isplaced in both the immigration and citizenship databases in case the person should comein contact with Immigration or apply for Canadian citizenship. New Citizen Processing ‘After a person has resided as « permanent resident in Canada for at least three years, they are cligible for Canadian citizenship. ‘An applications rade and submitted to the Department along with identification documents, proof oflanding, passports showing absences ‘and other relevant decuments such as marriage certificates, ttc, The applicant is checked in the citizenship database for prior applications ox watch-outs placed therein case of application. ‘They are also checked against the immigration database to ensure that they were legally admitted and no adverse information has come to light since. The applicant date js then sent to CSIS and the RCMP for security and criminal checks vie.e direct electronic link with the CIC Citizenship Processing Centre in Sydney, Novs Scotia, Ifthereare any indications that there! may be a problem, the applicant's fingerprints are abteined to ensure identification, called in for language and these tests, they are called . They are now Canadian Only after the applicant successfully passes these checks are they Knowledge of Canada tests, After the applicant successfully complet back for a citizenship ceremony where they take the oath of citizensh citizens, “The entice citizenship process takes between six months and s year depending on whether or not complications are encountered with the application, UNCLASSIFIED _ OY. 7.1999 SrSHRH INDUSTRIAL SHCREDY VSL ery PYINN £10. e73'D P1630 Joint Terms of Reference for the Canada-United States Joint Certification Program Signatories: R.A. Kilpatrick, Assistant Deputy Minister Intemational Trade Development ae Department of Extemal Affairs (Canada), and Mr. Everett D: Greinks Deputy Under Seartary of Dafense (international Prograzas and Technology), Office of ‘the Under Secretary of Defence (United States) Effective date: June 6, 1986 Piurpose/Summary: to establish e Joint Certification Program, © certify contractors of each country for access, on an equally favourable basis, o unclassified technical data disclosing

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