<?xml version="1.0"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2025-12-05" lims:lastAmendedDate="2025-12-05" lims:current-date="2025-12-10" lims:inforce-start-date="2025-12-05" lims:enacted-date="2025-12-05" lims:fid="1549704" lims:id="1549704" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SI" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2025-12-05" lims:enacted-date="2025-12-05" lims:fid="1549705" lims:id="1549705"><InstrumentNumber>SI/2025-123</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>12</MM><DD>17</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>12</MM><DD>11</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2025-12-05" lims:enacted-date="2025-12-05" lims:fid="1549706" lims:id="1549706"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="F-11">FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2025-12-05" lims:enacted-date="2025-12-05" lims:fid="1549707" lims:id="1549707">Fee Paid or Payable for the Acquisition of Permanent Resident Status (Certain Colombian, Haitian and Venezuelan Nationals) Remission Order</LongTitle><RegulationMakerOrder><RegulationMaker>P.C.</RegulationMaker><OrderNumber>2025-905</OrderNumber><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>12</MM><DD>5</DD></Date></RegulationMakerOrder></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2025-12-05" lims:enacted-date="2025-12-05" lims:fid="1549708" lims:id="1549708"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2025-12-05" lims:enacted-date="2025-12-05" lims:fid="1549709" lims:id="1549709" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, considering that it is in the public interest to do so, on the recommendation of the Treasury Board and the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, under subsection 23(2.1)<FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-5836_hq_1744211617">a</FootnoteRef> of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="F-11">Financial Administration Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-5836_hq_1744211632">b</FootnoteRef>, remits the fee paid or payable for the acquisition of permanent resident status under subsection 303(1)<FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-5836_hq_1744211645">c</FootnoteRef> of the <XRefExternal reference-level="federal" reference-type="regulation" link="SOR-2002-227">Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-5836_hq_1744211665">d</FootnoteRef> to certain Colombian, Haitian and Venezuelan nationals whose applications for permanent residency were approved under</Text><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2025-12-05" lims:enacted-date="2025-12-05" lims:fid="1549710" lims:id="1549710" format-ref="indent-1-1" language-align="no" list-item="no"><Label>(a)</Label><Text>the <XRefExternal reference-level="federal" reference-type="other">Temporary public policy to facilitate the issuance of permanent resident visas to certain Colombian, Haitian and Venezuelan nationals with family in Canada</XRefExternal> signed by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration on December 4, 2023; or</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2025-12-05" lims:enacted-date="2025-12-05" lims:fid="1549711" lims:id="1549711" format-ref="indent-1-1" language-align="no" list-item="no"><Label>(b)</Label><Text>a subsequent public policy issued under section 25.2<FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-5836_hq_1758728661">e</FootnoteRef> of the <XRefExternal reference-level="federal" reference-type="act" link="I-2.5">Immigration and Refugee Protection Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-5836_hq_1758728675">f</FootnoteRef> and signed by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration on September 20, 2024.</Text></Provision><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-5836_hq_1744211617" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 1991, c. 24, s. 7(2)</Text></Footnote><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-5836_hq_1744211632" placement="page" status="official"><Label>b</Label><Text>R.S., c. F-11</Text></Footnote><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-5836_hq_1744211645" placement="page" status="official"><Label>c</Label><Text>SOR/2020-45, s. 3</Text></Footnote><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-5836_hq_1744211665" placement="page" status="official"><Label>d</Label><Text>SOR/2002-227</Text></Footnote><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-5836_hq_1758728661" placement="page" status="official"><Label>e</Label><Text>S.C. 2012, c. 17, s. 14</Text></Footnote><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-5836_hq_1758728675" placement="page" status="official"><Label>f</Label><Text>S.C. 2001, c. 27</Text></Footnote></Provision></Order></Regulation>