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<\/p>\nMany individuals from Uganda who had faced imminent removal from Canada will be given a second chance at obtaining protected person status. <\/p>\n
New measures announced on June 19 apply to Ugandan nationals and former residents of Uganda who received a final negative decision between June 20, 2025, and June 19, 2026, on one of the following:<\/p>\n
An asylum claim.
\nA pre-removal risk assessment (PRRA) application.
\nA Federal Court decision.<\/p>\n
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Qualifying individuals are now exempt from the typical 12-month ban on PRRA<\/a> applications following such decisions, so they can apply for PRRAs immediately if they meet all other requirements.<\/p>\n A successful PRRA applicant is typically granted protected person status, allowing them to remain in Canada indefinitely and to apply for permanent residence<\/a> (PR) under the Convention Refugees and Persons in Need of Protection class.<\/p>\n Those who are unsuccessful in their PRRA application are required to leave Canada, typically with no opportunity to stay the removal order.<\/p>\n The PRRA process serves as a last-resort mechanism for individuals in Canada to seek protection.<\/p>\n The new exemption was announced by the federal government via a news release on June 19, 2026, in response to \u201ccurrent political and social conditions in Uganda.\u201d<\/p>\n The PRRA exemption has no relation to quarantine measures<\/a> put in place in response to the Ebola outbreak, according to the government press release.<\/p>\n To apply for a PRRA, individuals must first be informed by the Canada Border Services Agency<\/a> that they can do so. Those who receive the instruction can apply by following the federal government\u2019s online guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t\t \t\t\tJoin our immigration newsletter<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tBe the first to know\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n Join our free newsletter. Get Canada’s top immigration stories delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many individuals from Uganda who had faced imminent removal from Canada will be given a second chance at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[36239,17,1413,36240,4960,36241,36242,36243,36244,36245],"class_list":["post-98947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-asylum-status","tag-canada","tag-canadian-permanent-residence","tag-convention-refugees-and-persons-in-need-of-protection-class","tag-immigration-refugees-and-citizenship-canada","tag-pre-removal-risk-assessment","tag-protected-person-status","tag-prra-waiting-period","tag-removal-orders","tag-what-is-prra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n