Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

Marginal note:Class

• 85.1 (1) For the purposes of subsection 12(2) of the Act, the transitional federal skilled worker class is hereby prescribed as a class of persons who are transitional skilled workers and who may become permanent residents on the basis of their ability to become economically established in Canada and who intend to reside in a province other than the Province of Quebec.

• Marginal note:Transitional skilled workers

  (2) A foreign national is a transitional skilled worker if they made an application before January 1, 2002 under the former Regulations for an immigrant visa as a person described in subparagraph 9(1)(b)(i) or paragraph 10(1)(b) of those Regulations, other than a self-employed person within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of those Regulations, that was

  • (a) refused after March 31, 2003 and before June 20, 2003; or

  • (b) withdrawn by the foreign national on or after January 1, 2002 and before December 1, 2003.