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any person from applying to become citizen who failed to prove their good behaviour, including any person with suspended indictment or discharge with warning in the past 2 years, or any person who has been sentenced to pay a fine in the past 5 years, or probation until 7 years has passed since the end of the sentence, or imprisonment until 10 ...
Canada is signatory to the 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, and within Canada, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) is the legislation that governs the flow of people. The IRPA, established in 2003, outlines the ruling, laws, and procedures associated with immigrants in Canada.
The distribution of foreigners is largely uneven in Portugal: 63.5% of foreign citizens lived in Lisbon, Faro or Setúbal districts: these districts account for 35.2% of the country's population. [29] Immigrants in Portugal largely come from Latin America, Eastern Europe, Lusophone nations in Africa, and South Asia.
Canada receives its immigrant population from almost 200 countries. Statistics Canada projects that immigrants will represent between 29.1% and 34.0% of Canada's population in 2041, compared with 23.0% in 2021, [1] while the Canadian population with at least one foreign born parent (first and second generation persons) could rise to between 49.8% and 54.3%, up from 44.0% in 2021.
Indians in Portugal, including recent immigrants and people who trace their ancestry back to India, together number around 104,000 (2024 Indian Ministry of External Affairs data) [1] − 120,000 (2021 Indian embassy data data). [2] They thus constitute 0.98% – 1.13% of the total population of Portugal.
The number of people seeking asylum at the U.S.-Canada border or or trying to cross into the U.S. has increased in the last year, CBP numbers show despite the dangers.
As former president Donald Trump returns to power, more Americans who worry about a future under him may look north.
Illegal emigration is departure from a country in violation of emigration laws. Countries often seek to regulate who departs a country for diverse reasons, such as stopping criminals from leaving, preventing labor shortages and capital flight , and averting brain drain .