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AI-Assisted Processing of Privately Sponsored Refugee Applications

Accountable
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
Functional Modes
Deciding (Analytical AI)
Autonomous
Purpose
Border & Immigration
Input Dataset
Sensitive personal information Identifiable data
Algorithm or Model
Classification & Prediction
Output Dataset
A decision about you Identifiable data

This system helps Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada officers process privately sponsored refugee applications more efficiently. It automatically approves routine sponsorship portions of applications and sorts refugee files to appropriate officers based on their expertise and office capacity. Critically, officers retain final decision-making authority on all applications — the system never refuses an application, and all refusals remain the sole responsibility of human officers.

Sources for this disclosure

This disclosure was drafted with AI assistance.

Schema: ai@2026-05-06-beta

Government of Canada – DTPR AI Register